Autoinstall currently supports autoinstalling .zip files but not .gz files. pep8.py (necessary for bug 33639) is available for from pypi as a gzipped tar archive: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pep8/ http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pep8/pep8-0.5.0.tar.gz Adding support for unzipping and extracting a tar file prior to importing is related to the following report: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35163
We should let the Autoinstall guy (Daniel Krech) know: http://code.google.com/p/pyautoinstall/
Autoinstall leans on python to do the actual "zip" reading. There is a ZipImporter which knows how to import modules from zip files. I don't think there is similar for gzip. If pep8 is available as raw source or as an .egg file that would work too.
CCing the author of autoinstall.py
Marking as a duplicate since the patch for bug 35163 also takes care of this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 35163 ***