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vertex-four on Nov 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A Python Spider System with Web UI

The issue is that if you have two packages installed, and both use "libs" as their top-level package, they'll collide. Use "projectname.common" instead.

fmueller on Nov 17, 2014 [–]

This is not true, you can specify package directories in setup.py.

See https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/setupscript.html#listing...

vertex-four on Nov 17, 2014 | [–]

A package name != the actual name of the directory in the source tree. My point stands.

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