The package list shows the package is installed, but the import package throws an ImportError

I have a package that is hosted in my VCS. I launched:

$ pip install -vvv git+https://myvcs.com/myprotos

      

Here is the magazine. You will notice that it runs a custom script in the middle of the installation that actually creates the source files in the project. See this question for details on what it does .

Collecting git+https://myvcs.com/myprotos
  Cloning https://myvcs.com/myprotos to /private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build
  Running command git clone -q https://myvcs.com/myprotos /private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build
  Running setup.py (path:/private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build/setup.py) egg_info for package from git+https://myvcs.com/myprotos
    Running command python setup.py egg_info
    running egg_info
    creating pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info
    writing pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/PKG-INFO
    writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/top_level.txt
    writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
    writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    reading manifest file 'pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
  Source in /private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build has version 0.0.1, which satisfies requirement myprotos==0.0.1 from git+https://myvcs.com/myprotos
Installing collected packages: myprotos
  Running setup.py install for myprotos: started
    Running command /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-M03grb-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile
    running install
    Grabbing github.com/google/protobuf...
    Building Python protos...
    running build
    running install_egg_info
    running egg_info
    creating myprotos.egg-info
    writing myprotos.egg-info/PKG-INFO
    writing top-level names to myprotos.egg-info/top_level.txt
    writing dependency_links to myprotos.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
    writing manifest file 'myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    reading manifest file 'myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    writing manifest file 'myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    Copying myprotos.egg-info to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/myprotos-0.0.1-py2.7.egg-info
    running install_scripts
    writing list of installed files to '/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-M03grb-record/install-record.txt'
    Running setup.py install for myprotos: finished with status 'done'
  Removing source in /private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build
Successfully installed myprotos-0.0.1
Cleaning up...

      

So everything seems to be successfully installed. Even the pip list

outputs work :

$ pip list
.
.
.
myprotos (0.0.1)
.
.
.

      

However, it throws an ImportError if I try to import the package.

$ python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Jul 18 2017, 09:17:00)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import myprotos
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named myprotos

      

What could be here? Probably a build script failure on install, or my package misidentified or what could it be?

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The name of the egg is not necessarily the same as the name of the module or package it provides. In fact, it is quite common that these names are different. One egg can contain several packages, so it is generally not possible to use the same name. Moreover, the egg name can contain dashes and other characters that are not allowed in the Python module name.



The directory myprotos.egg-info

in your Python directory site-packages

should contain a file named top_level.txt

that lists all modules and top-level packages that export eggs.

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