import package in jupyter notebook installed with pip development mode

Question

I'm using anaconda to manage a virtual environment. I'm developing some Jupyter Notebooks and I'm using some functions in multiple Notebooks. So I want to extract these functions in a package, lets call it mytools and import mytools in my Notebooks. I installed the tools package from the parent dir with:

source activate myenv
pip install -e ./mytools/    

And run the jupyter notebook server

source activate myenv
jupyter notebook

When I execute import mytools I get the error:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-cbc927808b4d> in <module>()
----> 1 import mytools

ImportError: No module named 'mytools'

Why can't I import it in the juypter notebook?

When I run pip list in the conda environment I can see the installed package.

When I run:

import sys
sys.executable

it points to the myenv environment /Users/me/anaconda/envs/myenv/bin/python

My Folder structure:

├── Notebook Project1
│    └── Notebook1.ipynb
├── Notebook Project2
│    └── Notebook2.ipynb
└── mytools
     ├── __init__.py
     ├── module1
     │    ├── modulecode.py
     │    └── __init__.py
     ├── module2
     │    ├── modulecode.py
     │    └── __init__.py
     └── setup.py

Answer 1

The problem was an error in the setup.py file.

This helped me to solve the errors: https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/setupscript.html