setuptools is somehow a hidden dependency?

[yutanagano]

I just tried to install pyrepseq in a fresh new python environment, and it all installed without a hitch, except for that when I first tried to import pyrepseq in a python interpreter somehow a line of code was run which attempts to import from setuptools, and it complained that I didn't have setuptools installed.

This is currently a hidden dependency- it is not listed as a dependency yet it is run because of line 1 in version.py, according to my error stack.

>>> import pyrepseq
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/yutanagano/.test/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/pyrepseq/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .version import __version__
  File "/home/yutanagano/.test/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/pyrepseq/version.py", line 1, in <module>
    from setuptools import find_packages
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

I haven't fully looked into why version.py is run and what it's supposed to be doing, but we either:

1. Add setuptools as a dependency
2. Decide we don't want/need to depend on it and make sure version.py is either not run at import or runs different code

[andim]

Setuptools is used to automatically find all subpackages of the module as described here: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/distributing-packages-using-setuptools/#packages

We could I suppose move that code up to setup.py to remove the dependency?

[andim]

Solution attempt just pushed in db8c075. Can you test whether this solves it for you? If so I will close this issue - thanks!

[yutanagano]

Yup, the issue is now fixed for me.