Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 05:17 PM 11/10/2005 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > >> Or maybe just because it is a namespace package, and I don't >> understand how they work. Well, I do understand that they cause me >> constant problems, and it seems like namespace packages that aren't >> installed multi-version are highly problematic. > > > I personally try to never import a package from within the package's > setup script. It's way too likely to have weird results, even without > namespace packages being involved. > > However, if you want to make the package being installed become part of > the appropriate namespace package(s), you can use: > > pkg_resources.fixup_namespace_packages(source_dir) > > in order to tell pkg_resources that source_dir may contain package > snippets relevant to already-declared namespace packages. See > pkg_resources.txt for details.
I added paste/util to sys.path, and just run "import finddata", and that works fine. It's expedient and doesn't depend on anything too fancy at the module-level. -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
