easy_install of module produces un-importable result

[Val]

On Dec 8, 2:57 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> 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

You are absolutely right. How embarrassing. Thank you SO much!

-Val