[SOLVED] pip not finding setup file

Issue

I am getting an error when trying to install a python package with pip.

It is looking in a certain directory for "setup.py" after untaring the package and it can't find it there. The setup.py file is actually one directory down.

It's looking in:

 'virtualenvs/pyling/build/nltk/setup.py'

but it's actually in:

virtualenvs/pyling $ ls build/nltk/nltk-2.0b9/
INSTALL.txt  javasrc  LICENSE.txt  nltk  PKG-INFO  README.txt  setup.py

Is there a way to make pip aware of this nested folder structure in the package?

Thanks

Solution

i added a little function and call it in the property definition for setup_py in the pip/req.py file.

this seems to make it work the way i expect, that is if the setup.py file is only one layer deeper. hopefully nothing gets busted when bundling and freezing...

import os

def get_setup_path(in_path):
    print "starting path is %s"%in_path
    fileList=os.listdir(in_path)
    if fileList.__contains__("setup.py"):
        print "setup.py is indeed there"
        return in_path
    for f in fileList:
        f=os.path.join(in_path,f)
        if os.path.isdir(f):
            contents=os.listdir(f)
            if contents.__contains__("setup.py"):
                out_path=os.path.join(in_path,f)
                return out_path
    print "could not find setup.py by looking one level deeper"
    return in_path

and then call it here in req.py

(around line 195 in req.py)
@property   
def setup_py(self):
     self.source_dir= get_setup_path(self.source_dir)
     return os.path.join(self.source_dir, 'setup.py')

Answered By - dave