Index: finddata.py
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--- finddata.py	(revision 0)
+++ finddata.py	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+# Note: you may want to copy this into your setup.py file verbatim, as
+# you can't import this from another package, when you don't know if
+# that package is installed yet.
+
+import os
+import sys
+from fnmatch import fnmatchcase
+from distutils.util import convert_path
+
+# Provided as an attribute, so you can append to these instead
+# of replicating them:
+standard_exclude = ('*.py', '*.pyc', '*~', '.*', '*.bak')
+standard_exclude_directories = ('.*', 'CVS', '_darcs', './build',
+                                './dist', 'EGG-INFO', '*.egg-info')
+
+def find_package_data(
+    where='.', package='',
+    exclude=standard_exclude,
+    exclude_directories=standard_exclude_directories,
+    only_in_packages=True,
+    show_ignored=False):
+    """
+    Return a dictionary suitable for use in ``package_data``
+    in a distutils ``setup.py`` file.
+
+    The dictionary looks like::
+
+        {'package': [files]}
+
+    Where ``files`` is a list of all the files in that package that
+    don't match anything in ``exclude``.
+
+    If ``only_in_packages`` is true, then top-level directories that
+    are not packages won't be included (but directories under packages
+    will).
+
+    Directories matching any pattern in ``exclude_directories`` will
+    be ignored; by default directories with leading ``.``, ``CVS``,
+    and ``_darcs`` will be ignored.
+
+    If ``show_ignored`` is true, then all the files that aren't
+    included in package data are shown on stderr (for debugging
+    purposes).
+
+    Note patterns use wildcards, or can be exact paths (including
+    leading ``./``), and all searching is case-insensitive.
+    """
+    
+    out = {}
+    stack = [(convert_path(where), '', package, only_in_packages)]
+    while stack:
+        where, prefix, package, only_in_packages = stack.pop(0)
+        for name in os.listdir(where):
+            fn = os.path.join(where, name)
+            if os.path.isdir(fn):
+                bad_name = False
+                for pattern in exclude_directories:
+                    if (fnmatchcase(name, pattern)
+                        or fn.lower() == pattern.lower()):
+                        bad_name = True
+                        if show_ignored:
+                            print >> sys.stderr, (
+                                "Directory %s ignored by pattern %s"
+                                % (fn, pattern))
+                        break
+                if bad_name:
+                    continue
+                if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(fn, '__init__.py')):
+                    if not package:
+                        new_package = name
+                    else:
+                        new_package = package + '.' + name
+                    stack.append((fn, '', new_package, False))
+                else:
+                    stack.append((fn, prefix + name + '/', package, only_in_packages))
+            elif package or not only_in_packages:
+                # is a file
+                bad_name = False
+                for pattern in exclude:
+                    if (fnmatchcase(name, pattern)
+                        or fn.lower() == pattern.lower()):
+                        bad_name = True
+                        if show_ignored:
+                            print >> sys.stderr, (
+                                "File %s ignored by pattern %s"
+                                % (fn, pattern))
+                        break
+                if bad_name:
+                    continue
+                out.setdefault(package, []).append(prefix+name)
+    return out
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import sys, pprint
+    pprint.pprint(
+        find_package_data(show_ignored=True))

Property changes on: finddata.py
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Name: svn:eol-style
   + native

Index: setup.py
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--- setup.py	(revision 40)
+++ setup.py	(working copy)
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from ez_setup import use_setuptools
 use_setuptools()
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-
+from finddata import find_package_data
 from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound
 
 commands = dict()
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
         "setuptools >= 0.6a5", "elementtree >= 1.2.6",
         "cElementTree >= 1.0.2", "FormEncode > 0.2.2"],
     packages=find_packages(),
-    package_data = {'' : ["*.kid", "*.js", "*.html", "*.source", "*.empty"]},
+    package_data = find_package_data(),
     entry_points = {
         'console_scripts' : [
             'tg-admin = turbogears.command:main'