I'd like to ship only the .pyc files for a module. I was hoping the standard distutils setup.py could handle this, but so far, I've not figured out how.
After a bit of work, I discovered that if I create a MANIFEST.in file, and put 'include mymodule/*.pyc' and 'exclude mymodule/*.py' in it, then running 'python setup.py sdist' would generate a tar.gz file for me that contained the setup.py file and all my .pyc files, just like I wanted. However, when I then extract that tar.gz file, and try to run 'python setup.py install', it complains about the missing .py files, and creates the 'mymodule' directory in the site-packages directory but without putting any of the .pyc files in it. At this point, I'm stumped. I was hoping someone out there had gone down this same route and could tell what I'm doing wrong. Can setup.py even handle this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
