I wrote a package. It has subdirectory called keynames containing key names assigned to values they are represented in stdin. When I ran python setup.py sdist, keynames was added to source distribution:
running sdist
running egg_info
writing getchlib.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to getchlib.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to getchlib.egg-info/top_level.txt
reading manifest file 'getchlib.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
adding license file 'LICENSE'
writing manifest file 'getchlib.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
running check
creating getchlib-1.0.7
creating getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
creating getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib.egg-info
creating getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib/keynames
copying files to getchlib-1.0.7...
copying LICENSE -> getchlib-1.0.7
copying README.md -> getchlib-1.0.7
copying setup.py -> getchlib-1.0.7
copying getchlib/__init__.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib/ctrl.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib/decorators.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib/getkey.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib/hotkey.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib/pressed.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib/printer.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib/term.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib/unix.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib/windows.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib
copying getchlib.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib.egg-info
copying getchlib.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib.egg-info
copying getchlib.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib.egg-info
copying getchlib.egg-info/top_level.txt -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib.egg-info
copying getchlib/keynames/__init__.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib/keynames
copying getchlib/keynames/raw.py -> getchlib-1.0.7/getchlib/keynames
Writing getchlib-1.0.7/setup.cfg
Creating tar archive
removing 'getchlib-1.0.7' (and everything under it)
In getchlib-1.0.7.tar.gz is that directory.
It's also in source distribution at PyPI.
But when I called pip install getchlib, ~/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/getchlib did not contain keynames subdirectory:
[adam@gastan site-packages]$ ls ~/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/getchlib -l
total 44
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 1137 Dec 9 21:07 ctrl.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 205 Dec 9 21:07 decorators.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 294 Dec 9 21:07 getkey.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 1976 Dec 9 21:07 hotkey.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 68 Dec 9 21:07 __init__.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 231 Dec 9 21:07 pressed.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 112 Dec 9 21:07 printer.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 adam adam 4096 Dec 9 21:07 __pycache__
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 449 Dec 9 21:07 term.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 2350 Dec 9 21:07 unix.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 429 Dec 9 21:07 windows.py
And therefore, import getchlib failed with ImportError:
[GCC 11.1.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import getchlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/adam/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/getchlib/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
from . import keynames
ImportError: cannot import name 'keynames' from partially initialized module 'getchlib' (most likely due to a circular import) (/home/adam/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/getchlib/__init__.py)
