On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 04:35:17PM +0100, Otto Maddox wrote:
Hi,
I have a Python project which follows a client-server architecture. It is natural to develop it as two different projects and in two different source distributions, myproject-server.tar.gz and myproject-client.tar.gz.
Neither package depends on the other, but because they are part of a larger, overarching project, I want install each of them so that they appear as subpackages (myproject.server and myproject.client) under a common superpackage (myproject). I am looking for the cleanest and most correct way to do this using distutils and setup.py, so that I can end up with a structure like this:
site-packages/myproject site-packages/myproject/__init__.py
site-packages/myproject/server/__init__.py site-packages/myproject/server/file1.py site-packages/myproject/server/file2.py
site-packages/myproject/client/__init__.py site-packages/myproject/client/file3.py site-packages/myproject/client/file4.py
and so that any of the following commands (and their standard variations) work:
import myproject import myproject.server import myproject.client
Is there a way to write distutils/setup.py to do this?
You would probably interested about setuptools' namespace support for doing this, you can have a look at http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html#namespace-packages
Additionnaly, if you are looking for examples, the Zope community is well known for the use of namespaced packages - have a look at the zope., zc., z3c., collective., plone., etc. namespaces.
Jonathan