David Moss wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the author of netaddr :- > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/netaddr/0.6 > > For release 0.6 I've added setuptools support so it can be distributed > as a Python egg package using the easy_install tool. > > In 0.6, I've started bundling some data files from IEEE and IANA with > the code below the site-packages install path (lib/site-packages/ > netaddr/...). netaddr accesses and parses these files on module load > to provide various IP and MAC address related information via its API. > > This mechanism works for the setuptools based packages because on > install they extract to the filesystem and can be accessed using > something like :- > > >>> index = open(os.path.join(__file__, 'oui.idx')) > > However, setuptools seems to perform some magic for module imports > which prevents me from accessing these files directly as they are > bundled inside an egg (zip) file :-( > > Two questions arise out of this situation :- > > 1) is there a better way to distribute the files, i.e. should I be > using a different more correct path instead of site-packages for data? > If so, where is this and how do I add it to my setup scripts and code? > > 2) is there an easy (and portable) way for me to dive inside an egg > file to access the data I required (ugly but workable). I'm assuming > I'd need to check for the presence of setuptools available with the > Python interpreter etc. > > My users and I would be grateful for and help and advice.
There is a zip-safe flag that you can specify that tells setuptools that installing your egg only works if it is unarchived. However, there is also the pkg_resources-package that allows you to access streams from within a package, even if it is zipped. You should investigate these two options. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
