Easy_install cache downloaded files

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Update 13 years later: easy_install was removed from Python in January 2021. The python package manager is pip, it caches downloaded packages.

pip (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/) is a drop-in replacement for the easy_install tool and can do that.

Just run easy_install pip and set an environment variable PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE to the path you want pip to store the files.
Note that the cache won’t work with dependencies that checkout from a source code repository (like svn/git/hg/bzr).

Then use pip install instead of easy_install

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