On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:36 PM DL Neil via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > On 9/10/19 2:12 PM, jf...@ms4.hinet.net wrote: > > dieter於 2019年10月8日星期二 UTC+8下午1時33分20秒寫道： > >> jf...@ms4.hinet.net writes: > >>> ... > >>> But most of the download from Github has a directory named 'xxxx-master' > >>> which causes a trouble sometimes. > >> > >> Those are likely not meant to be imported directly. > >> > >> Typically, you have a "setup" step which installs (in some way) > >> a "distribution". This step usually ensures that you can use > >> "normal" Python import syntax to access all associated packages. > >> > >> The "setup" step is typically performed with > >> "python setup.py develop" or "python setup.py install" -- > >> with the "distribution" providing the "setup.py". > > > > Yes, I understand the normal procedure on using a package, but it's not > > always the case. > > I'm curious - if this is the correct way to do things, and the original > author intends the package/module for you to download, why does (s)he > choose to follow an non-Pythonic naming convention? > > Does this say something about the author? > - something about his/her abilities in Python? > - the Python-friendliness (or otherwise) of GitHub? (cf PyPi) >
It looks like the OP asked GitHub for a zip download instead of doing what would be far more generally common: cloning the repository. (Or just using pip to install directly from GitHub, although not everyone knows that that's possible.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
