Question

How to Change dependency paths and deploy to different directory structure than developing in?

I have a the following structure in my source directory

\ABCE
\ABCE\lib
\ABCE\lib\modulA.py
\ABCE\lib\modulA.py

if I now package with python setup.py sdist

i need to call the module with:

import lib.moduleA
import lib.moduleB

how can I avoid lib. but maintain my directory structure? So that I import with

import moduleA
import moduleB

Answer 1

List lib in the packages_dir option:

package_dir = {'': 'lib'}

From the distutils “Writing a Setup Script” documentation:

If you use a different convention to lay out your source directory, that’s no problem: you just have to supply the package_dir option to tell the Distutils about your convention. For example, say you keep all Python source under lib, so that modules in the “root package” (i.e., not in any package at all) are in lib, modules in the foo package are in lib/foo, and so forth. Then you would put

package_dir = {'': 'lib'}

in your setup script. The keys to this dictionary are package names, and an empty package name stands for the root package. The values are directory names relative to your distribution root. In this case, when you say packages = ['foo'], you are promising that the file lib/foo/__init__.py exists.