Package name

June 11, 2023

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The distribution name of a Python package can be different than the import name. Below is an example of a repository named sklearn-model which contains the skmodel package.

sklearn-model/
├── README.md
├── examples/
│   └── example.py
├── pyproject.toml
└── src/
    └── skmodel/
        ├── __init__.py
        └── adder.py

The contents of the pyproject.toml are shown below. Notice the distribution name is defined as sklearn-model which is the name displayed on PyPI and is the name shown by the pip list command. However, the package is imported by the user with import skmodel because it lives in the src/skmodel directory.

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools>=61.0"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

[project]
name = "sklearn-model"
version = "0.1"