Imported library 'owaspapi' contains no keywords. (if it's installed using pip) - python-2.7

Question

I have made a library for Robot Framework (myapi.py). If I place it in the same directory with my robot test I can import the library like this:
Library myapi.py
It works just fine.
However, I made the library pip installable so that others may take it into use in other projects easily. The library installs just fine with pip. I also changed the robot test to import the library like this:
Library myapi
When I run the robot test I get warning:
[ WARN ] Imported library 'myapi' contains no keywords.
Here's the (pip installable) library file structure:
setup.py
myapi
\__init__.py
\myapi.py
\version.py
The setup.py content is:
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
exec(open('myapi/version.py').read())
setup(
name='myapi',
version=__version__,
packages=['myapi'],
install_requires=['requests']
)
The init.py content is:
from .version import __version__
The version.py content is:
__version__ = '1.1.0'
The myapi.py content is (included only the first function I have):
import requests
import time
from time import strftime
import urllib2
__all__ = ['create_new_MY_session']
def create_new_MY_session():
session_name = strftime('my_session_%S_%H_%M_%d_%m_%Y')
r = requests.get("http://localhost:8080/JSON/core/action/newSession/?zapapiformat=JSON&name=" + session_name + "/'")
print ("Creating new session: " + session_name + ". Status code...")
print (r.status_code)
assert (r.status_code) == 200
And finally the beginning of the robot test (login.robot):
*** Settings ***
Suite Setup Open Firefox With Proxy
Suite Teardown Close Browser
Library mypapi
Library OperatingSystem
Library Selenium2Library
Resource ws_keywords/product/webui.robot
*** Test Cases ***
MY Start New MY Session
Create New MY Session
I wonder if the library works just fine when located right next to the robot test, what am I missing if I make it pip installable...? Why does it complain that there are no keywords?

Answer 1

In your myapi.py file you missing the class reference. When the file is placed inside your Robot Framework project this wasn't an issue, but when creating a pip installable module, this is required. A basic Python Library code example is this:
myapi.py
class myapi(object):
ROBOT_LIBRARY_VERSION = 1.0
def __init__(self):
pass
def keyword(self):
pass