Handling a python package name with hyphen in the setup() requires list

Question

I depend on the package python-memcached but its name breaks the python naming conventions and consequently it breaks the setup function in core.py.

setup(name='foo',
      version='1.0',
      requires = ['python-memcached','psycopg2']
      )

This breaks setup. How can I depend on the package? Is it possible to rename it locally or create an alias?

It seems this only breaks distutils' `setup()`. Can you use setuptools' `setup()` intsead? It would use `install_requires=` instead of `requires=`. — AdamKG, Apr 18 '12 at 17:27

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '12 at 17:37

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python-memcached's module name is memcache, hence use:

setup(name='foo',
  version='1.0',
  requires = ['memcache','psycopg2']
)

Hope that helps.

Another alternative would be to use pylibmc instead; more info on the latter it available here http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylibmc

answered Apr 18 '12 at 17:37

cfedermann

I'm currently using the PyCharm evaluation. It says: "package requirement 'memcached' is not satisfied". I can safely ignore this, however. – z7sg Ѫ Apr 19 '12 at 10:56
"memcached"? The module name is "memcache"... Feel free to accept the answer if it helped :) – cfedermann Apr 19 '12 at 11:40

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