[Distutils] namespace_package

[KP]

Just to recap:

1. if you don't put namespace_packages in the setup.py, then it will
uninstall the shared __init__.py when you uninstall any of the packages
2. If you put namespace_packages, then there is a pth file created for the
shared directory (site-packages/foo) and no foo/__init__.py is created
(even if it is in your package)
#2 - breaks things like : doing a source checkout that participates in this
namespace_package...If you do this then only the
lib/site-packages/foo/<modules> are importable

Solution appears to be:


On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:17 AM, KP <patter001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> yes, both of those statements are true.
>
> However, with the namespace_packages = ['foo'], the
> lib\site-packages\foo\__init__.py does not get installed (even though it is
> in the source tree). Instead there's just a dir with "foo/bar/__init__.py"
> and "foo/blah/__init__.py". I will try to look in the "wheel" side of
> things next I guess. Perhaps pip is doing something since it seems to
> install even source distributables by first converting to a wheel.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at gedmin.as> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 06:59:31PM -0500, KP wrote:
>> > I'm not sure where the issue is, but when I specify a namespace_package
>> in
>> > the setup.py file, I can indeed have multiple packages with the same
>> base
>> > (foo.bar, foo.blah, etc...). The files all install in to the same
>> > directory. It drops  the foo/__init__.py that would be doing the
>> > extend_path, and instead adds a ".pth" file that is a bit over my head.
>> >
>> > The problem is that it does not seem to traverse the entire sys.path to
>> > find multiple foo packages.
>>
>> Does every foo.x package specify namespace_packages=['foo']?
>>
>> Do they all ship an identical foo/__init__.py with
>>
>>     import pkg_resources
>>     pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__)
>>
>> ?
>>
>> AFAIU you need both things in every package, if you want to use
>> namespace packages.
>>
>> > If I do not specify namespace_packages and instead just use the
>> > pkgutil.extend_path, then this seems to allow the packages to be in
>> > multiple places in the sys.path.
>> >
>> > Is there something additional for the namespace_package that i need to
>> > specify in order for all of the sys.path to be checked?
>> >
>> > I'm using 18.5 setuptools....but I am not sure if this somehow ties in
>> to
>> > wheel/pip, since I'm using that for the actual install.
>>
>> Marius Gedminas
>> --
>> Give a man a computer program and you give him a headache, but teach him
>> to
>> program computers and you give him the power to create headaches for
>> others for
>> the rest of his life...
>>         -- R. B. Forest
>>
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