How to structure python packages without repeating top level name for import

Question

I\'m brand new at python package management, and surely have done something wrong. I was encouraged to create a directory structure as follows:

bagoftricks
         


        

Answer 1

Follow following structure :

bagoftricks 
    ── bagoftricks
    │ ├── __init__.py
    │ └── bagoftricks.py 
    ├── README.md
    └── setup.py

and then you should be able to use it as :

from bagoftricks.bagoftricks import levenshtein, geofind

but after you make the change in folder structure do :-

pip uninstall 

and reinstall the package

meanwhile check your setup.py

#!/bin/env python
import os.path
from setuptools import setup, find_packages

def current_path(file_name):
    return os.abspath(os.path.join(__file__, os.path.pardir, file_name))

setup(
    name = 'bagoftricks',
    version = '0.1',
    include_package_data = True,
    packages=find_packages(),
)

setup might have some other parameters too. I hope it works for you.