[Distutils] Seems to work except it won't import

Peter Bengtsson peter at fry-it.com
Wed Nov 19 10:02:15 CET 2008


2008/11/19 Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> Your __init__.py and domstripper.py need to be moved into a subdirectory
> named domstripper.
>
It works now! Thanks!
It confused me when that directory was created after setting up the package.

>
> At 11:27 PM 11/18/2008 +0000, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
>>
>> Sorry about the vague subject but I'm not sure how to phrase my problem.
>> First of all I'm a setuptools beginner and I'm not sure what I'm doing.
>>
>> I've created a basic package with paster and filled in the blanks. Now
>> python setup.py test works and runs the two little tests it has.
>> I might have "pressed one too many buttons" when I ran setup.py which
>> might be why it doesn't work.
>>
>> It's available on http://pypi.python.org/pypi/domstripper/
>>
>> But when I do this:
>>
>> (my_virtualenv)$ easy_install domstripper
>> ...
>> (my_virtualenv)$ ls lib/python2.5/site-packages/
>> lxml-2.1.3-py2.5-linux-i686.egg
>> domstripper-0.2dev_r16670-py2.5.egg
>> setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg
>> easy-install.pth
>> setuptools.pth
>>
>>
>> it installs fine as far as I can see but here's the problem::
>>  (my_virtualenv) $ python
>>  >>> import lxml # just to test that something worked
>>  >>> import domstripper
>>
>> Grateful for advice.
>
>



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