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Asked: 2026-05-16T16:47:42+00:00

What’s the best way to install two python modules with the same name? I

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What’s the best way to install two python modules with the same name? I currently depend on two different facebook libraries: pyfacebook and Facebook’s new python-sdk. Both of these libraries install themselves as the module ‘facebook’. I can think of a bunch of hacky solutions but before I go an hack away I was curious if there was a pythonic way of dealing with this situation.

I’m using virtualenv and pip.

(Yes, I will eventually deprecate one of them, but I had two different engineers working on two different problems and they didn’t realize that they were using a different module until integration)

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  1. Editorial Team

    First, I’d suggest you guys go over what other libraries you’re all using so you can get a concesus on how you’re building your application.

    To support this type of thing place each module within it’s own folder, put in an __init__.py file, then you can do this:

    import Folder1.facebook as pyfacebook
import Folder2.facebook as facebooksdk
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