pip install doesn't install local package fully.

[eromoe]

• Pip version: 9.0.1
• Python version: 2.7.6
• Operating system: ubuntu 14.04 in docker

Description:

My project structure

basin-textminer:

basin-textminer/textminer :

If I used pip install -e basin-textminer/ , I can from textminer.db import xxxx

But if I used pip install basin-textminer/ , from textminer.db import xxxx would get error ImportError: No module named db

My setup.py doesn't exclude any folders, only assign packages:

    packages=['textminer'],

[cryvate]

Is there a __init__py in ``basin-textminer/textminer/db?

[eromoe]

@cryvate
Yes.
And do you mean pip install -e can load module without __init__.py ?

[pfmoore]

This sounds like a general issue with how you're packaging your project (i.e., a problem in your setup.py or MANIFEST.in file). As such, it's not a pip issue and you'd be better asking on a more suitable forum like python-list.

[eromoe]

This is whole setup.py :

from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function, absolute_import

import sys
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
from codecs import open
import os

install_requires = open('requirements.txt').read().split('\n')

setup(
    name='textminer',

    description='textminer',

    author='mithril',

    classifiers=[
        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',

        'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',

        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
        'Environment :: Web Environment',

        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks',
        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
    ],

    keywords='',

    packages=['textminer'],

    install_requires=install_requires,

)

@pfmoore
I don't see there is any strange setting in my setup.py. Could you explain why pip install -e act different as pip install in my situation ?

[pradyunsg]

Hi @eromoe!

I suggest you run python setup.py sdist and then inspect the contents of the *.tar.gz file that is generated in the dist/ folder. I think there'll be files missing in that. If so, they'll be missing in the installed distribution as installed by pip install ..

The right place to ask why it is so and how to fix it would be python-list (mailing list) or #python on Freenode (IRC); this issue tracker is definitely not the right place. :)

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None the less, some things I'd like to point out:

packages=['textminer'],

The subpackages of textminer are not being installed. You should probably just do find_packages() here instead.

install_requires = open('requirements.txt').read().split('\n')

Please don't do this. https://packaging.python.org/discussions/install-requires-vs-requirements/