This is a small example repository you can use when you want to ship a stand-alone python package inside another python package. It was created as a simple test repository when I for one of my products needed a meta package that contained multiple packages that could also be installed individually. While doing so I wanted to make sure I did not have redundant folders in the package import name_space of the meta package. For example I want users to have the ability to import the PythonClass found under the main_package.stand_alone_subpackage.stand_alone_subpackage.subpackage_module.python_module under a shortened namespace main_package.stand_alone_subpackage.subpackage_module.python_module. Meaning I want to get rid of the redundant stand_alone_subpackage namespace that was created because the subpackage also has to work as a stand alone pypi package.
After asking a question on stackoverflow I came up with a setup that allows getting rid of the redundant folder. The code for this is found in the setup.py file. Using this setup.py file you can install the package with the shortened namespace package using the pip install . command. I also looked for a way to put all this logic inside the setup.cfg file see this issue on setuptools. This however is not yet possible without converting all the sub packages to name_space packages and using the recommended name_space packages folder structure. For my solution I did not want to do this since this makes the folder structure more complicated.