[Distutils] Having a Python package install itself under a different name

[Lennart Regebro]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 20:17, cool-RR <cool-rr at cool-rr.com> wrote:
> As P.J. said, the package will have the same name `garlicsim` in both
> versions, but the name on PyPI of the Python 3 version will be
> `garlicsim_py3`.

Ah, OK, I misunderstood there, i thought you meant the other way around.

> Funny you mention it just now. Python 3 is just giving me an obscure problem
> that I (a) don't know how to solve and (b) seriously doubt any 2to3
> algorithm will handle.

If has nothing to do with conversion at all. If you can solve it
(which I hope you can't) it's going to work 2to3 or no 2to3. But
hopefully you just find a way to *not* pickle methods. :-)