Poetry: build a package with a non-standard directory structure

Question

I created a repo with this non-standard structure:

- src
 - resources
  -- a.py
  -- b.py ...

I want to make a package out of it (let's call it pack).

In my pyproject.toml, the relevant lines are:

[tool.poetry]
name = "pack"
include=[{include="src"}]

Then after a pip install everything is installed under src. Using it would mean from src import ... not from pack import ....

If I follow the standard tree (everything under src/pack), then it works as expected.

Question

Is there a way, with my tree, to have the package built so as from pack import ... works?

Answer 1

If you want to use pack in your import statements, you need a folder that is called like this. This is how python discovers a package.

Where it is located and how your project is named is a different story. If you have a project structure like this:

pack
├── README.md
├── pyproject.toml
└── src
    └── pack
        ├── __init__.py
        ├── a.py
        └── b.py

you must have this in your pyproject.toml

[tool.poetry]
name = "pack"
packages = [{include = "pack", from = "src"}]