At 06:26 PM 10/22/2009 -0700, Kaelin Colclasure wrote:
On Oct 22, 2009, at 6:14 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
At 05:47 PM 10/22/2009 -0700, Kaelin Colclasure wrote:
Greetings,
I am attempting my first Python contribution and have run into a
speed
bump getting a working setup.py using setuptools. Specifically, I
cannot coax it to install my package data files into the site- packages
directory. Here is a link to my project where my setup.py is
available
for browsing:
<http://bitbucket.org/kaelin/cuttlefish/>
There's no setup.py there.
Oops, forgot to `hg push`... It's there now. :-)
Your "package data" isn't being included because you don't have any
packages, only a module.
Move your cuttlefish.py to cuttlefish/__init__.py, and put the .plist
file in the same directory with it, and switch from py_modules to
packages in your setup() arguments. That will make it get included
with your installs and eggs.
Finally, you may want to drop use of __file__ and use the
pkg_resources API to access your data files instead, so that your
library will work when it's installed as a zipfile:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#basic-resource-access
For example, rather than using __file__ to find the .plist file, you might use:
contents = resource_string(__name__, 'cuttlefish-config.plist')
to load the contents of the file as a string.
(This step is optional; if you use __file__ in your code, setuptools
will mark your project's eggs as requiring unzipping, and they will
be installed unzipped. So, you don't *have to* do it, the __file__
use will still work.)
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