distutils question: different projects under same namespace

[Qiangning Hong]

To avoid namespace confliction with other Python packages, I want all my 
projects to be put into a specific namespace, e.g. 'hongqn' package, so that 
I can use "from hongqn.proj1 import module1", "from
hongqn.proj2.subpack1import module2", etc.

These projects are developed and maintained and distributed seperately, so I 
should not make a whole 'hongqn' package with one setup.py. I must write 
setup.py scripts for each project. I meet a problem here.

For instance, I am writing setup.py script for proj1. I use the following 
parameters when calling distutils.core.setup:

setup(
...
package_dir = {'hongqn.proj1': 'proj1'},
packages = ['hongqn.proj1'],
...
)

"python setup.py install" will create /usr/lib/python2.3/hongqn/proj1 
directory and copy proj1/*.py there. But this is UNUSABLE! There is NO 
__init__.py file under /usr/lib/python2.3/hongqn/ so that import 
hongqn.proj1 will fail!

I am considering manually create this __init__.py by hacking the install_lib 
command. But before making my hands dirty, I want to know if there is an 
"official" solution exists or others have already success stories on this 
matter.

As a note, I wish the solution can handle setup.py bdist and bdist_wininst 
well.

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