Sorry for not replying properly in the thread, but I think I've found the bug. I downloaded python from cvs and took the latest distutils from there.

In command/build_py.py there is a function:

    def get_data_files (self):
        """Generate list of '(package,src_dir,build_dir,filenames)' tuples"""
        data = []
        if not self.packages:
            return data
        for package in self.packages:
            # Locate package source directory
            src_dir = self.get_package_dir(package)

            # Compute package build directory
            build_dir = os.path.join(*([self.build_lib] + package.split('.')))

            # Length of path to strip from found files
            plen = len(src_dir)+1

            # Strip directory from globbed filenames
            filenames = [
                file[plen:] for file in self.find_data_files(package, src_dir)
                ]
            data.append((package, src_dir, build_dir, filenames))
        return data

Note that the filename is chopped using file[plen:] above. If src_dir=="",
as I have in my setup.py file (which is a perfectly acceptable package directory), then plen == 1, and so the first character gets chopped from each of the file names.


self.find_data_files returns the correct files, but the first character gets chopped from them.

Jeremy

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