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elyase
elyase

Reputation: 40973

Creating setup.py for existing project structure

I started working on a project with the following folder structure where each top folder lives in a separate repository:

project-api/
  source/
     module1.py
     module2.py
project-core/
  source/
     module3.py
     module4.py

I would like to pip install -e and be able to do:

from api.module1 import function1
from core.module3 import function3

without changing the folder structure (fixed by the project).

Question: How can I create the corresponding(s) setup.py?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 590

Answers (1)

phd
phd

Reputation: 94483

You cannot do that with pip install -e because option -e "installs" packages in development/editable mode. It doesn't actually install anything but creates a link that allows Python to import modules directly from the development directory. Unfortunately in your case that impossible — directories project-core and project-api contain forbidden character in their name (-) — these directories cannot be made importable in-place.

But pip install . could be made to install top-level packages api and core from these directories. First you have to add __init__.py:

touch project-api/source/__init__.py
touch project-core/source/__init__.py

And the following setup.py do the rest:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from setuptools import setup

setup(
    name='example',
    version='0.0.1',
    description='Example',
    packages=['api', 'core'],
    package_dir={
        'api': 'project-api/source',
        'core': 'project-core/source',
    }
)

Run pip install . and you're done. Execute import api, core in Python.

PS. If you can create symlinks at the root:

ln -s project-api/source api
ln -s project-core/source core

you can use pip install -e .

Upvotes: 1

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