What option do I need in setup.py to create the package in the right directory?
package, pip, python, python-2.7, setup.py
Solution
The description to how to do this an be found in the distribute documentation... Within a directory containing all of the project (`TowelStuff/` in the given example) you specify the name of the actual module (`towelstuff/`). To include this as your module you need to add the following line in `setup.py`:
'packages': ['towelstuff']
After having created the sdist (from within `TowelStuff/`), the installation of this package will install it under `site-packages/towelstuff`, which can be imported as usual (`from towelstuff import ...`).
Problem
I am using `setup.py` to create a python package, which I want to install via `pip`. To correctly install the files under ``` lib/python2.7/site-packages/<package-name> ``` I used the following option in `setup.py`: ``` 'package_dir': {'':'lib'} ``` as described here but get an error ``` error: package directory 'lib' does not exist ``` Well, there is no such directory as I want the current directory to be installed as package `lib` or whatever. I also tried to use ``` 'package_dir': {'mycode':''} ``` which installes the code directly in ``` lib/python2.7/site-packages/ ``` and not under ``` lib/python2.7/site-packages/<package-name> ``` What am I doing wrong, and where is this documented? I might overlooked the documentation of this basic feature as the documentation for `setup.py` is 'suboptimal'.