Distutils evil voodoo: install into a package

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Pavel Panchekha schrieb:
> Before you flame me, I know that what I'm trying to do is beyond evil.
> But I nonetheless want to do it. Feel free to rant if you must. :)
> 
> I have a package that I want to install into another package. For
> example, I have the packages pya and pyb.
> pya is guaranteed to be installed before pyb is, so that's not an
> issue. pya is installed as the module `pya`. I want to install pyb
> into the module `pya.pyb`.
> 
> Is there any way to do this beyond figuring out what the path is and
> installing the entire pyb directory as data_files?

This is what whe world has created namespace-packages for. At least if 
you can live with the namespace "pya" being otherwise empty.

Pray tell - what is your usecase?

Diez