Failing to install dependencies for a custom project

Question

So I am having a project that is meant to be able to be distributed and it is dependent on some other pip-installable modules. That is how setup.py looks like:

import setuptools
from rss_reader.rss_reader import VERSION

setuptools.setup(name='whatever',
      version=VERSION[1:],
      description='RSS-feed reader',
      long_description='Pure Python command line RSS-feed reader ',
      packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
      classifiers=["Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
                   "Operating System :: OS Independent"],
      python_requires='>=3.5',
      entry_points={'console_scripts': ['rssreader=rss_reader.rss_reader:main']},
      install_requires=['bs4',
                        'feedparser',
                        'html5lib',
                        'jsonpickle',
                        'requests'])

In order to make sure everything works just fine I tried to install the package in a Docker container, and pip install . causes a ModuleNotFound Error. By installing the dependencies manually the problem gets solved, so I'm pretty sure install_requires is what the problem is. What exactly am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

So what turned out to be the answer is making another file with VERSION and importing exactly this variable; rss_reader.rss_reader looks like this:

...
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
...
VERSION='v0.3'
...

So it tries to import BeautifulSoup before assigning version and, therefore, before the actual install