installation of multiple setup.py in the same directory for local packages

Question

I'm working with the following directory structure:

package1/
    package_content1
package2/
    package_content2
setup.py

Up until now I usually installed with pip install -e . commenting the part of the package1 to install package2 of the setup.py and vice versa. Is there a way to create 2 different setup.py and declare the package I want to install without changing the whole structure of the project?

Something like pip install -e 'package1' or pip install -e package1_setup.py

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UPDATE:

I have been testing other methods and I've come to the solution of installing it via python3 package1_setup.py develop . Although I see that it is not the preferred method, so if there is a way to do the same with pip install -e let me know.

Answer 1

try having something like this

package1/
  package_content1
  setup.py
package2/
  package_content2
  setup.py

and you can do pip install -e ./package1 or pip install -e ./package2 from top level