setup.py: renaming src package to project name

Question

Let\'s say you have a project called proj and in this project you have the following structure:

proj/
  dists/
  doc/
  src/
    __init__.py
            


        

Answer 1

You can try adding the src folder to the PYTHONPATH before you call the setup function:

import sys, os
src_path = os.path.join(os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), 'src')
sys.path.append(src_path)

And also, just to be on the safe side, you then change the working directory:

os.chdir(src_path)

After that, it should all be OK.

Some other tools for packaging your app support that from within. I thought it was setuptools, turns out it's PyInstaller. But basically, that's what should be done, just enough for your packages to be imported directly.

Turns out distutils has the package_dir directive. That is what you should use, but it might work by only adding your package to the PYTHONPATH.