Editable install?

[ivirshup]

Right now I can't install this in editable mode:

$ pip install -e .
ERROR: File "setup.py" not found. Directory cannot be installed in editable mode: /Users/isaac/github/scanpydoc
(A "pyproject.toml" file was found, but editable mode currently requires a setup.py based build.)

Might be useful to add a setup.py or documentation for an editable install?

[flying-sheep]

I think this is fixed in pip 19.1.1, but please tell me to reopen if I’m wrong.

[ivirshup]

I tried this with pip v19.3.1

[flying-sheep]

Ah I see. There’s no standard for something like this, so it still needs the nonstandard setup.py. Since its presence triggers all kinds of different and probably buggy behaviors, and people will try using setup.py instead of the supported way, there won’t be a setup.py here.

Please try manually linking the package into you PYTHONPATH as I described above, or, like I do, just manually set PYTHONPATH to the dev directories of packages: PYTHONPATH=Dev/anndata:Dev/anndata2ri jupyter lab

Reference with further links: python-poetry/poetry#1279