The package_data configuration in setup.py is incorrect

[WangLocker]

In the setup.py file, the package_data configuration is incorrect. The current configuration is:

package_data={
'pyod.utils.model_analysis_jsons': ['*.json'],
},

However, this configuration is incorrect because pyod.utils.model_analysis_jsons is not a Python package (it doesn't have an init.py file) but a data directory. This will cause errors in autoselector during operation (unable to find files).

It is recommended to modify it to:

package_data={
'pyod.utils': ['model_analysis_jsons/*.json'],
}

[yzhao062]

thanks for this -- could you mention which file are you refering to?

https://github.com/yzhao062/pyod/blob/master/setup.py may not include this. thanks

[WangLocker]

branch development
After reading the article titled "PyOD 2: A Python Library for Outlier Detection with LLM-powered Model Selection", I discovered that it now features automatic outlier detection method selection. However, in Issue #625 , I found that this function has only been merged into the development branch so far.
Practically, the autoselector still fails to work properly. When running it, an error is thrown indicating that the corresponding model_analysis_jsons cannot be found in the Python library. I noticed that these files exist in the directory pyod/utils/model_analysis_jsons, yet they are missing from the environment directory after installing PyOD via pip or Git repository URL.
Therefore, I suspect this is a packaging issue, and I located the following line in setup.py:package_data={'pyod.utils.model_analysis_jsons': ['*.json'],}

[WangLocker]

https://github.com/yzhao062/pyod/blob/development/setup.py
line 41