[Distutils] Namespace packages and egg-info confusion when using bdist_rpm

[Ryan May]

Ryan May wrote:
>> On Thu, July 26, 2007 2:01 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>> At 01:37 PM 7/26/2007 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>>>> I had the same error.  Should I have put in an "import enthought" in all
>>>> the others?
>>> No, apparently the manual import doesn't help.  Presumably the ones
>>> you changed need something more like this:
>>>
>>> import enthought; enthought.traits = sys.modules['enthought.traits']
>>> import enthought.traits; enthought.traits.ui =
>>> sys.modules['enthought.traits.ui']
>>>
>>> I thought the import would be sufficient, but apparently it's not.  :(
>>>
>>> Again, let me know if it works so I can change setuptools accordingly.
> 
> This solution worked for me initially, but now I'm getting warnings when
> I run any python script I get:
> 
> warning: Not importing directory
> '/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/enthought/traits': missing __init__.py
> warning: Not importing directory
> '/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/enthought/traits/ui': missing
> __init__.py
> 
> 
> This is when I added the above lines to the .pth files for both traits
> and traits.ui.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
Turns out that another package (kiva) decided it would be a good idea to
put a __init__.py in the enthought directory, which made python angry.

Sorry for the noise, distutils.

Enthought guys, anybody wanna take a crack at why kiva (and only kiva)
insisted on adding a __init__.py to enthought?

Ryan

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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma