On 9/26/06, Stephen Waterbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My app reads some of its core structures from a set of
> RDF files. I have been keeping the RDF files in a directory
> within the distribution, but it would be okay to have them in
> my app's home directory, say ~/.my_app, when the package is
> installed or when the user starts it up (the latter probably
> making the most sense on systems that are designed to be
> multi-user), but haven't yet got either way to work with
> py2app.
>
> The new setuptools' pkg_resources API looked pretty good,
> so I'm using it to pull data out of the RDF files with
> 'resource_stream'. It works in my development environment
> on Linux that has been configured with 'setup.py development',
> and it also works on the Macintosh that way -- i.e.,
> running the script in the development environment, where it
> can find the RDF files. But it doesn't work when I make
> a package using py2app.
>
> (I fudged it on mswin by having the Innosetup
> installer copy the files to the user's home directory
> and then finding the home directory at startup.)
>
> py2app's '--resources' option seems like what I need,
> but I can't seem to figure out the proper incantation,
> because when the app starts up I immediately get an
> error message that the files can't be found.
>
> I've attached the setup.py I'm using. Below is an
> excerpt from my code that uses resource_stream, which
> works fine when the files are in the place indicated.
>
> Any suggestions? (I did give the kb directory an
> __init__.py, even though there are no modules in it, and
> even tried putting the files into an __all__, but it had
> no effect on py2app.)
>
> Thanks!
> Steve
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> kbres = {'pgef' : resource_stream('pangalactic', 'meta/kb/pgef.owl'),
> 'pgef_meta' : resource_stream(
> 'pangalactic', 'meta/kb/pgef_meta.owl'),
> 'owl' : resource_stream('pangalactic', 'meta/kb/owl.rdf'),
> 'rdf' : resource_stream('pangalactic', 'meta/kb/rdf.rdf'),
> 'rdfs' : resource_stream('pangalactic', 'meta/kb/rdfs.rdf')
> }
> kb = KB(kbdata=kbres)
--packages=meta.kb
-bob
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