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Asked: 2026-05-14T14:23:48+00:00

I want to develop a common python package, I got other packages depends on

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I want to develop a common python package, I got other packages depends on it. For example:

  • packageA/
  • packageB/
  • packageC/
  • commonPackage/

packageA, packageB and packageC can all be executed directly, but they are all depend on commonPackage. I want to install the commonPackage into lib/site-packages, but I don’t want it copys the source code. Instead, I want it creates a commonPackage.pth in lib/site-packages with the path of where the commonPackage at. So that when I modify commonPackage or update it from SVN, I don’t need to install it again. Here comes the problem, how can I write the setup.py or use the options of python setup.py install so that it would do what I want?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Oops, I just find exactly what I want here. The develop command of setuptools do what I said. Here you type 

    python setup.py develop

    It creates .pth rather than copying everything into site-packages.

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