如何列出依赖于自身的python依赖关系？

Question

I have seen a few packages on github that does something like this:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

import mypackage

setup(name="mypackage", version=mypackage.__version__ ..

This would fail as mypackage when running "python setup.py develop" as mypackage has not been installed yet. Is there a way to fix this?

Answer 1

No it wouldn't. If you have 2 files in the same directory, they can import each other.

Answer 2

setup.py and mypackage.py are in the same directory, so when you run python setup.py develop , mypackage is being imported from the local directory, not from one of the standard locations where (presumably) mypackage will eventually be installed.

You could verify this, if you like, by adding

print my package.__file__

following the import statement and observing the local path that is printed.