distutils: package data

[Qiangning Hong]

I am writing a setup.py for my package. I have a pre-compiled
myextmod.pyd file in my package and I want the distutils to
automatically copy it to
C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\mypackage\myextmod.pyd.

I try to add the following parameter to setup():

data_file = [('mypackage', ['mypackage/myextmod.pyd'])],

but it installs the pyd file to C:\Python23\mypackage\myextmod.pyd,
this is not what I want.

And I don't want to specify the path in data_file to the absolution
path 'C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\mypackage', for portability, of
course.

Any hints?

 

[Qiangning Hong]

ehh.. I did a little more reading and found that this function can be
easily done by the new distutils parameter "package_data" in 2.4.

However, I am using python2.3

So, my question becomes: how to emulate the package_data function in
python 2.3?

 

[Serge Orlov]

ehh.. I did a little more reading and found that this function can
be easily done by the new distutils parameter "package_data" in 2.4.

However, I am using python2.3

So, my question becomes: how to emulate the package_data function in
python 2.3?

There is distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib() that works at least
since 2.2:

'/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages'
'/usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages'

'c:\\python24\\Lib\\site-packages'

Serge.

 

[David Fraser]

I am writing a setup.py for my package. I have a pre-compiled
myextmod.pyd file in my package and I want the distutils to
automatically copy it to
C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\mypackage\myextmod.pyd.

I try to add the following parameter to setup():

data_file = [('mypackage', ['mypackage/myextmod.pyd'])],

but it installs the pyd file to C:\Python23\mypackage\myextmod.pyd,
this is not what I want.

And I don't want to specify the path in data_file to the absolution
path 'C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\mypackage', for portability, of
course.

Any hints?

Actually you probably want to look at describing the .pyd as an
Extension. Then you can even give distutils the instructions to build
it, and as a side effect you can install it to the right location
This may not be what you want though

David