I want to customize a python package. I need to be able to install the customized package in anaconda on other machines. This is the method by which i'm installing the customized package in case it's relevant: How do I install packages to Anaconda from locally built tar.gz
However i would also like to rename the package. For example if i wanted to edit openpyxl, i want my edited package to be called openpyxl_edit. However the name openpyxl is used in multiple places throughout the original package source code.
Is it likely that i have to rename openpyxl to openpyxl_edit in all of the occurrences in all of the source files in the entire package? Is there an easier way of changing the name of a package?