easy_install of module produces un-importable result

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Val schrieb:
> I've written my first module, "
" and uploaded it as an egg to
> PyPI. I can use easy_istall to install my own module, but when I try
> to import it I get an ImportError "No module named gpsparser".
> 
> So I've done some research and found that in my site-packages/
> directory gpsparser exists as an egg file, while all the other
> packages I've installed exist as an egg directory.
> 
> If this makes any sense, can anyone explain what I've done wrong in
> building my package that the installation process does not unpack the
> egg file?


This has nothing to do with that - it's simply that your egg is empty. 
Take a look at this:

(gpsparser)mac-dir:Application Support deets$ unzip -l 
/Users/deets/.virtualenvs/gpsparser/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpsparser-0.0.1-py2.5.egg
Archive: 
/Users/deets/.virtualenvs/gpsparser/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpsparser-0.0.1-py2.5.egg
   Length     Date   Time    Name
  --------    ----   ----    ----
         1  12-08-08 12:04   EGG-INFO/dependency_links.txt
       249  12-08-08 12:04   EGG-INFO/PKG-INFO
       599  12-08-08 12:04   EGG-INFO/SOURCES.txt
         1  12-08-08 12:04   EGG-INFO/top_level.txt
         1  12-08-08 11:25   EGG-INFO/zip-safe
  --------                   -------
       851                   5 files
(gpsparser)mac-dir:Application Support deets$

I presume you miss a

     packages=find_packages(),

line in your setup.py, with

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

to actually get the find_packages.

Diez