To avoid namespace confliction with other Python packages, I want all my projects to be put into a specific namespace, e.g. 'hongqn' package, so that I can use "from hongqn.proj1 import module1", "from hongqn.proj2.subpack1 import module2", etc.
These projects are developed and maintained and distributed seperately, so I should not make a whole 'hongqn' package with one setup.py. I must write setup.py scripts for each project. I meet a problem here. For instance, I am writing setup.py script for proj1. I use the following parameters when calling distutils.core.setup: setup( ... package_dir = {'hongqn.proj1': 'proj1'}, packages = ['hongqn.proj1'], ... ) "python setup.py install" will create /usr/lib/python2.3/hongqn/proj1 directory and copy proj1/*.py there. But this is UNUSABLE! There is NO __init__.py file under /usr/lib/python2.3/hongqn/ so that import hongqn.proj1 will fail! I am considering manually create this __init__.py by hacking the install_lib command. But before making my hands dirty, I want to know if there is an "official" solution exists or others have already success stories on this matter. As a note, I wish the solution can handle setup.py bdist and bdist_wininst well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list