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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 1839

python3 setuptools is not package error

I have a package with the following directory structure:

mypackage
   mypackage
      __init.py__
      users.py
   bin
      mypackage.py
   setup.py

My setup.py looks like this:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name='mypackage.py',
    version='0.9',
    packages=find_packages(),
    scripts=['bin/mypackage.py'],
    install_requires=['np', 'filelock', 'python-dateutil', 'requests', 'numpy'])

The __init__.py contains:

import mypackage.users

My bin/mypackage.py includes among other things:

from mypackage.users import *

I am running

python3 setup.py install

Everything works great and then on the terminal I type:

mypackage.py

and I am greeted with the following error:

    from mypackage.users import *
ImportError: No module named 'mypackage.users'; 'mypackage' is not a package

If I attempt:

python3
import mypackage

I get no errors. I also use virtualenv (not shown here) but I am sure there are no other conflicts.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 592

Answers (1)

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 1839

Long story short, executable script cannot have the same name like the package. Lost 3 hours of my life.

Upvotes: 7

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