/build-wheel-that-depends-on-another-local-wheel

Code example to demonstrate an edge case written in my blog post.

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Python packaging edge cases

This is a code example to demonstrate an edge case written in my blog post.

TL;DR: You cannot package a Python module that depends on local wheel dependencies.

First, make sure you are using the latest setuptools

pip install setuptools -U

Build a package using direct references as follows:

cd build-wheel-that-depends-on-another-local-wheel
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

Now try to build it using the relative path, which should give you an error

cd build-wheel-that-depends-on-another-local-wheel
python setup_modified.py sdist bdist_wheel