how to use a local package

[JoseBlanca]

Hi,
I'm developing at the same time a python package and a shiny application that uses that should package. I know how to use a package available in pypi, but not how to use a local pacakge. In my development virtual env I have install the package with pip -e, but that would not work inside the shiny app.
Ah, I'm using shinylive.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Best,

Jose Blanca

[JoseBlanca]

I have find out the problem.
I was symlinking my package to the app directory and shinlylive was failing to put the package dir into shiny_site/app.json.
I have gone into the shinylive internals and I have found the problem.
In culprit was the funcion read_app_files found in _app_json.py.

read_app_files looks for the files to put in shiny_site/app.json using os.walk. The relevant code is:

app_files: list[FileContentJson] = []

Recursively iterate over files in app directory, and collect the files into

app_files data structure.

exclude_names = {"pycache", "venv", ".venv"}
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(appdir, topdown=True):
root = Path(root)

The problem is that os.walk by default has the parameter followlinks=False, so it does not list my package because it was a symlink.
I don't know if this is the desired behaviour or not. If it is it might be nice to warn about it in the documentation. (Maybe it is explained but I don't remember it).
If it is not the desired behaviour it would be very easy to change. You just would need to write:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(appdir, topdown=True):

to:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(appdir, topdown=True, followlinks=True):

Best,

Jose Blanca

P.S. By the way, it took me a couple of hours to realize what the problem was.