setuptools very simple (one source file module) configuration

Question

I want to use setuptools to create a package consisting of two files: foo.py (script) and foo.conf.

Then I want to publish the package on my devpi-server and then install the package using pip.

Suppose I that initially I have my current working directory clean

$ ls -l
total 0

Then I issue pip install (or download?) command

$ pip install -i http://mydevpi.server foo

And get a dir with my two files created

$ tree
.
|
foo
|
|\_ foo.py
|
 \_ foo.conf

So questions are:

• what setuptools configuration should I use?
• what exact pip command should I use to install the package the way I want? Will pip install -i http://mydevpi.server --target=. do the trick?

Answer 1

First write somethings as setup.py in foo directory like:

import setuptools

setuptools.setup(
    name='foo_pip',
    version='1',
    packages=[''],
    url='1',
    license='1',
    author='1',
    author_email='1',
    description='1'
)

(You can use distutils or setuptools)

Then python setup.py bdist_wheel -d TARGET and there will be a whl file in target directory, copy the path.

You can now install using pip install the_wheel_file_path --prefix="the_path_to_install"

Something like this

Processing .../TARGET/foo_pip-1-py2-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: foo-pip
Successfully installed foo-pip-1

Then use it by import foo