CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user15256253
user15256253

Reputation:

why can I not use my package normally? PyPi


I'm building a very simple package, and I managed to upload it to pypi.
I followed this post: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-your-first-python-package/
But when I tried to import it and use it, a weird thing happened. 

import testsimpleprinter as tsp

tsp.testsimpleprinter("Hello") # <- does not work

tsp.testsimpleprinter.testsimpleprinter("Hello there!") # <- this works just fine

TestSimplePrinter
├── testsimpleprinter
│   ├── testsimpleprinter.py <- inside this, I have a func called testsimpleprinter again
│   └── __init__.py <- "from testsimpleprinter import testsimpleprinter"
├── setup.py

At first I thought i had created setup.py somewhere wrong, so I moved it inside testsimpleprinter folder. But when i tried with it I got something like this: 

ERROR: File "setup.py" not found for legacy project testsimpleprinter==0.1.0 from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/08/36/6446d90277fa8899aaa68b811b/a89ba43807c58be2bab666197ff0e9f41c/testsimpleprinter-0.1.0.tar.gz#sha256=713fc48338620adfd4ef71102478d5e740ad77164fafbc19363f4cf1816922cc.

As in the post, I want to use my package like this

import testsimpleprinter as tsp

tsp.testsimpleprinter("Hello") # I want it to work

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 67

Answers (1)

notrev
notrev

Reputation: 680

The issue is with your testsimpleprinter/__init__.py file. With the import statement from testsimpleprinter import testsimpleprinter you are reimporting the package, not the local testsimpleprinter.py file. To specify the local file, you need to add a . as a prefix, which should be like:

# testsimpleprinter/__init__.py file
from .testsimpleprinter import testsimpleprinter

Upvotes: 2

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