python setup.py to install multiple modules
Question: Below is my setup.py code :

    
    
    from os import path
    import sys
    python_version = sys.version_info[:2]
    
    if python_version < (2, 6):
        raise Exception("This version of xlrd requires Python 2.6 or above. "
                    "For older versions of Python, you can use the 0.8 series.")
    
    av = sys.argv
    if len(av) > 1 and av[1].lower() == "--egg":
        del av[1]
        from setuptools import setup
    else:
        from distutils.core import setup
    
    from xlrd.xlrd.info import __VERSION__ as p
    from xlwt.xlwt import __VERSION__
    
    DESCRIPTION = (
        'Library to create spreadsheet files compatible with '
         'MS Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 XLS files, '
         'on any platform, with Python 2.3 to 2.7'
         )
    
    
    
    CLASSIFIERS = [
        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
        'Programming Language :: Python',
        'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
        'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
        'Topic :: Office/Business :: Financial :: Spreadsheet',
        'Topic :: Database',
        'Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries',
        ]
    
    KEYWORDS = (
        'xls excel spreadsheet workbook worksheet pyExcelerator'
        )
    setup(
        name = 'xlrd',
        version = p,
        author = 'John Machin',
        author_email = 'sjmachin@lexicon.net',
        url = 'http://www.python-excel.org/',
        packages = ['xlrd'],
        scripts = [
            'xlrd/scripts/runxlrd.py',
             ],
        package_data={
            'xlrd/xlrd': [
                'doc/*.htm*',
                # 'doc/*.txt',
                'examples/*.*',
                ],
    
            },
    
    keywords = ['xls', 'excel', 'spreadsheet', 'workbook'],
    classifiers = [
            'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
            'Intended Audience :: Developers',
            'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
            'Programming Language :: Python',
            'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
            'Operating System :: OS Independent',
            'Topic :: Database',
            'Topic :: Office/Business',
            'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
            ],
    
    )
    setup (
        name = 'xlwt',
        version = __VERSION__,
        maintainer = 'John Machin',
        maintainer_email = 'sjmachin@lexicon.net',
        url = 'http://www.python-excel.org/',
        download_url = 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt',
        description = DESCRIPTION,
        long_description = LONG_DESCRIPTION,
        license = 'BSD',
        platforms = 'Platform Independent',
        packages = ['xlwt'],
        keywords = KEYWORDS,
        classifiers = CLASSIFIERS,
        package_data = {
            'xlwt/xlwt': [
                'doc/*.*',
                'examples/*.*',
                'tests/*.*',
                ],
            },
           )
    

I have tried to marge `setup.py` of both `xlrd` and `xlwt` here and trying to
run master `setup.py` to install both the modules at one shot. It is
installing the modules but not the attributes so can't use those modules.
Basically my need is to run a single script and install multiple modules in
clients machine. Is is possible? Please guide me if ay other way I can do this
. Thanks in advance.


Answer: As an example of invoking setup.py of both packages. Let's consider that you
are in a some top level directory with the following structure:

    
    
    mydir
    |
    |--setup.sh # global setup script
    |
    |--xlrd
    |  |
    |  |--...
    |  |--setup.py
    |  |--...
    |
    |--xlwt
       |
       |--...
       |--setup.py
       |--...
    

A shell script is simple:

    
    
    #!/bin/sh
    python ./xlrd/setup.py install
    python ./xlwt/setup.py install
    

A batch script should be pretty similar:

    
    
    xlrd\setup.py install
    xlwt\setup.py install
    

