Pip installs but module is not found

Question

I am trying to install Exscript from github.

pip install -e \'git+git://github.com/knipknap/exscript.git#egg=Exscript\'
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Successfully installed Exscript
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Answer 1

The flag -e means "editable", and what happens behind the scenes is a symlink, and as I see, Exscript uses a directory named src, what is not seen a good practice[1].

So, in order to solve your problem, you have two alternatives:

1. Remove -e flag
2. Change Exscript to get rid of src, and use another directory name

Take a look at http://guide.python-distribute.org/creation.html#directory-layout and https://web.archive.org/web/20160601051350/https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#development-mode.

[1]: the good practice is to have the directory as the same name as used when importing the package