At 11:16 PM 5/27/2010 +0200, cool-RR wrote:

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:03 PM, P.J. Eby <mailto:pje@telecommunity.compje@telecommunity.com> wrote: At 10:40 PM 5/27/2010 +0200, cool-RR wrote: Is there a way that `garlicsim_py3` will install itself under the alias `garlicsim`? What I want is for a Python 3 user to be able to `import garlicsim` and refer to the module all the time as `garlicsim`, but that it will really be `garlicsim_py3`.

Why not just develop them both with the same package name? Your project name (in setup(name='...')) can still be different.

Oh, I didn't even know that was possible. That sounds great, and I wish I would have known about this option 6 months ago.

If this works well, I'll start converting my entire codebase to this method. Before I jump in, is there anything important I should keep in mind, any possible problems?

Also, this is plain setuptools, right? I mean, not requiring Distribute.

It works with plain distutils, too. Just use setup(name='garlicsym_py3', packages=['garlicsym']) in your Python 3 branch of setup.py, and setup(name='garlicsym', packages=['garlicsym']) in your Python 2 branch.