Python module won't install

Question

This is my setup.py file

#!/usr/bin/env python

from setuptools import setup
from sys import path

setup(name= 'conundrum',
    version= '0.1.0',
    author= 'elssar',
    author_email= '[email protected]',
    py_modules= ['conundrum'],
    url= 'https://github.com/elssar/conundrum',
    license= 'MIT',
    description= 'A framework agnostic blog generator.',
    long_description= open(path[0]+'/README.md', 'r').read(),
    install_requires= [
        'PyYAML >= 3.0.9',
        'Markdown >= 2.2.0',
        'requests >= 1.0.4',
        ],
)

I have tried using both setuptools and distutils, but this won't install my module. Instead I get

file module.py (for module module) not found

This is my directory structure

/module
|--/test
|--README.md
|--license.txt
|--module.py
|--setup.py

Just to be clear, module is the root directory.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

This is the output when I try to install

elssar@elssar-laptop:/usr/local/src/conundrum$ sudo python /home/elssar/code/conundrum/setup.py install
/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py:250: UserWarning: 'licence' distribution option is deprecated; use 'license'
  warnings.warn(msg)
running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing requirements to conundrum.egg-info/requires.txt
writing conundrum.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to conundrum.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to conundrum.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
warning: manifest_maker: standard file 'setup.py' not found
file conundrum.py (for module conundrum) not found
reading manifest file 'conundrum.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'conundrum.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
file conundrum.py (for module conundrum) not found
file conundrum.py (for module conundrum) not found
warning: install_lib: 'build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6' does not exist -- no Python modules to install
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying conundrum.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying conundrum.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying conundrum.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying conundrum.egg-info/requires.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying conundrum.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
creating 'dist/conundrum-0.1.0-py2.6.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' to it
removing 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' (and everything under it)
Processing conundrum-0.1.0-py2.6.egg
removing '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/conundrum-0.1.0-py2.6.egg' (and everything under it)
creating /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/conundrum-0.1.0-py2.6.egg
Extracting conundrum-0.1.0-py2.6.egg to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
conundrum 0.1.0 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/conundrum-0.1.0-py2.6.egg
Processing dependencies for conundrum==0.1.0
Searching for requests==1.0.4
Best match: requests 1.0.4
Adding requests 1.0.4 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
Searching for Markdown==2.2.0
Best match: Markdown 2.2.0
Processing Markdown-2.2.0-py2.6.egg
Markdown 2.2.0 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing markdown_py script to /usr/local/bin

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Markdown-2.2.0-py2.6.egg
Searching for PyYAML==3.10
Best match: PyYAML 3.10
Adding PyYAML 3.10 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
Finished processing dependencies for conundrum==0.1.0

Just to be sure there isn't something wrong my my system, I downloaded two packages from github with a similar setup.py and installed them. Installed without any problems.

Answer 1

I cannot run setup.py from a different directory. It needs to be run from the directory it is in. That was the problem here.

Fixed.

Answer 2

If I understand your layout, the problem is that you're using the default package_dir, which means that top-level modules like module need to be in the root directory as module.py, not as module/module.py.

So, add this:

package_dir = {'': 'module'}

Now, it'll look for module as module/module.py.

(PS, this would all be a lot less confusing to discuss if your module, or its subdirectory, or ideally both, were called something other than "module". Also, if you used a more standard format for drawing your directory tree.)

This is explained in Listing whole packages. (I realize you're listing individual modules, not whole packages, but the docs for that section just say "again, you can override the package/directory correspondence using the package_dir option", referring back to the section I linked. And the reference for package_dir is even less helpful; it just says "A mapping of package to directory names".)