Can I use dist-utils to install a sub-package?
Thomas Heller
theller at python.net
Thu May 13 15:22:52 EDT 2004
Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> writes:
> HI all,
>
> I'd like to be able to use distutils to install a package within the
> wxPython package:
>
> wx.lib.MyPackage
>
> I want to be able to do this so folks can upgrade a package of mine
> that is in the wxPython library, without changing it's location.
>
> In looking through the distutils docs, it looks like I cannot specify
> a sub-package location for my package, It will only put it in
> site-packages, not site-packages.wx.lib
>
> Is there a way to do this?
You should look into the pkgutil module, which is in Python 2.3. It is
supposed to support such schemes. Although I don't know if it requires
changes to wxPython itself.
Thomas
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