On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 06:59:31PM -0500, KP wrote: > I'm not sure where the issue is, but when I specify a namespace_package in > the setup.py file, I can indeed have multiple packages with the same base > (foo.bar, foo.blah, etc...). The files all install in to the same > directory. It drops the foo/__init__.py that would be doing the > extend_path, and instead adds a ".pth" file that is a bit over my head. > > The problem is that it does not seem to traverse the entire sys.path to > find multiple foo packages.
Does every foo.x package specify namespace_packages=['foo']?
Do they all ship an identical foo/__init__.py with
import pkg_resources
pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__)
?
AFAIU you need both things in every package, if you want to use
namespace packages.
> If I do not specify namespace_packages and instead just use the
> pkgutil.extend_path, then this seems to allow the packages to be in
> multiple places in the sys.path.
>
> Is there something additional for the namespace_package that i need to
> specify in order for all of the sys.path to be checked?
>
> I'm using 18.5 setuptools....but I am not sure if this somehow ties in to
> wheel/pip, since I'm using that for the actual install.
Marius Gedminas
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