fix #97 PEP420: find_packages()

changelog.d/1312.change.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Introduce find_packages_ns() to find PEP 420 namespace packages.

docs/setuptools.txt

@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ Feature Highlights:
 * Create extensible applications and frameworks that automatically discover
   extensions, using simple "entry points" declared in a project's setup script.
 
+* Full support for PEP 420 via ``find_packages_ns()``, which is also backwards
+  compatible to the existing ``find_packages()`` for Python >= 3.3.
+
 .. contents:: **Table of Contents**
 
 .. _ez_setup.py: `bootstrap module`_
@@ -462,6 +465,67 @@ argument in your setup script.  Especially since it frees you from having to
 remember to modify your setup script whenever your project grows additional
 top-level packages or subpackages.
 
+``find_packages_ns()``
+----------------------
+In Python 3.3+, ``setuptools`` also provides the ``find_packages_ns`` variant
+of ``find_packages``, which has the same function signature as
+``find_packages``, but works with `PEP 420`_ compliant implicit namespace
+packages. Here is a minimal setup script using ``find_packages_ns``::
+
+    from setuptools import setup, find_packages_ns
+    setup(
+        name="HelloWorld",
+        version="0.1",
+        packages=find_packages_ns(),
+    )
+
+
+Keep in mind that according to PEP 420, you may have to either re-organize your
+codebase a bit or define a few exclusions, as the definition of an implicit
+namespace package is quite lenient, so for a project organized like so::
+
+
+    ├── namespace
+    │   └── mypackage
+    │       ├── __init__.py
+    │       └── mod1.py
+    ├── setup.py
+    └── tests
+        └── test_mod1.py
+
+A naive ``find_packages_ns()`` would install both ``namespace.mypackage`` and a
+top-level package called ``tests``! One way to avoid this problem is to use the
+``include`` keyword to whitelist the packages to include, like so::
+
+    from setuptools import setup, find_packages_ns
+
+    setup(
+        name="namespace.mypackage",
+        version="0.1",
+        packages=find_packages_ns(include=['namespace.*'])
+    )
+
+Another option is to use the "src" layout, where all package code is placed in
+the ``src`` directory, like so::
+
+
+    ├── setup.py
+    ├── src
+    │   └── namespace
+    │       └── mypackage
+    │           ├── __init__.py
+    │           └── mod1.py
+    └── tests
+        └── test_mod1.py
+
+With this layout, the package directory is specified as ``src``, as such::
+
+    setup(name="namespace.mypackage",
+          version="0.1",
+          package_dir={'': 'src'},
+          packages=find_packages_ns(where='src'))
+
+.. _PEP 420: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/
 
 Automatic Script Creation
 =========================

setuptools/__init__.py

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 """Extensions to the 'distutils' for large or complex distributions"""
 
 import os
+import sys
 import functools
 import distutils.core
 import distutils.filelist
 from distutils.util import convert_path
 from fnmatch import fnmatchcase
 
+from setuptools.extern.six import PY3
 from setuptools.extern.six.moves import filter, map
 
 import setuptools.version
@@ -17,11 +19,15 @@
 
 __metaclass__ = type
 
+
 __all__ = [
     'setup', 'Distribution', 'Feature', 'Command', 'Extension', 'Require',
-    'find_packages',
+    'find_packages'
 ]
 
+if PY3:
+  __all__.append('find_packages_ns')
+
 __version__ = setuptools.version.__version__
 
 bootstrap_install_from = None
@@ -111,6 +117,9 @@ def _looks_like_package(path):
 
 find_packages = PackageFinder.find
 
+if PY3:
+  find_packages_ns = PEP420PackageFinder.find
+
 
 def _install_setup_requires(attrs):
     # Note: do not use `setuptools.Distribution` directly, as

setuptools/tests/test_find_packages.py

@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@
 
 import pytest
 
-import setuptools
+from setuptools.extern.six import PY3
 from setuptools import find_packages
 
-find_420_packages = setuptools.PEP420PackageFinder.find
+py3_only = pytest.mark.xfail(not PY3, reason="Test runs on Python 3 only")
+if PY3:
+  from setuptools import find_packages_ns
 
 # modeled after CPython's test.support.can_symlink
 
-
 def can_symlink():
     TESTFN = tempfile.mktemp()
     symlink_path = TESTFN + "can_symlink"
@@ -153,30 +154,35 @@ def test_symlinked_packages_are_included(self):
     def _assert_packages(self, actual, expected):
         assert set(actual) == set(expected)
 
+    @py3_only
     def test_pep420_ns_package(self):
-        packages = find_420_packages(
+        packages = find_packages_ns(
             self.dist_dir, include=['pkg*'], exclude=['pkg.subpkg.assets'])
         self._assert_packages(packages, ['pkg', 'pkg.nspkg', 'pkg.subpkg'])
 
+    @py3_only
     def test_pep420_ns_package_no_includes(self):
-        packages = find_420_packages(
+        packages = find_packages_ns(
             self.dist_dir, exclude=['pkg.subpkg.assets'])
         self._assert_packages(packages, ['docs', 'pkg', 'pkg.nspkg', 'pkg.subpkg'])
 
+    @py3_only
     def test_pep420_ns_package_no_includes_or_excludes(self):
-        packages = find_420_packages(self.dist_dir)
-        expected = [
-            'docs', 'pkg', 'pkg.nspkg', 'pkg.subpkg', 'pkg.subpkg.assets']
+        packages = find_packages_ns(self.dist_dir)
+        expected = ['docs', 'pkg', 'pkg.nspkg', 'pkg.subpkg', 'pkg.subpkg.assets']
         self._assert_packages(packages, expected)
 
+    @py3_only
     def test_regular_package_with_nested_pep420_ns_packages(self):
         self._touch('__init__.py', self.pkg_dir)
-        packages = find_420_packages(
+        packages = find_packages_ns(
             self.dist_dir, exclude=['docs', 'pkg.subpkg.assets'])
         self._assert_packages(packages, ['pkg', 'pkg.nspkg', 'pkg.subpkg'])
 
+    @py3_only
     def test_pep420_ns_package_no_non_package_dirs(self):
         shutil.rmtree(self.docs_dir)
         shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(self.dist_dir, 'pkg/subpkg/assets'))
-        packages = find_420_packages(self.dist_dir)
+        packages = find_packages_ns(self.dist_dir)
         self._assert_packages(packages, ['pkg', 'pkg.nspkg', 'pkg.subpkg'])
+