Using setuptools to create a package -- change of the case of some directories

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Python 3.5, setuptools 34.3.2, Mac OS 10.12

I am creating a package for some libraries I've been writing. I'm using for that:

python3 setup.py sdist --format=zip

It works fine and I get a package I can distribute to other systems.

Now, my code has several directories, all of them named in lower case. When I create the zip file, the case is changed in two of them:

documentation -> Documentation spice -> SPICE

The documentation directory (which contains all the docuemntation created with Sphinx) is not a problem as everything seems to work. Actually, I seem to remember that the Documents folder always uses capital letter, for some reason. The other, however, is a python package used in other parts of the code and, as a consequence of this change from lower case to upper case, the package is not found anymore.

I can not find any reason why, when creating a package, those folders - in particular the "spice" folder - changes. It is very annoying an problematic since it prevents me to use my code properly.

Do you have any suggestion about what might be going wrong here?

Many thanks

Can you post the output of the command? Also, please include the input folder tree and output zip structure. Thanks — nir0s
– nir0s, Commented Mar 13, 2017 at 18:25

dalonsoa · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-14 08:35:40Z

PROBLEM SOLVED!

When creating a package, there is some information stored in a folder named "mypackage.egg-info". This folder had (very) outdated information corresponding to a time when the names of the directories where different.

The solution has been as simple as removing that folder and execute the command to create the package again.

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