python packaging: data files (intermediate) anthony explains #071

today I talk about packaging data / build files for python packages! This covers MANIFEST.in, include_package_data, package_data, source distributions and wheels!

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[lima]

Looked in several pages around, but only your tuto worked. Thanks!

[jackrorystaunton]

You make it look so easy 😂 it's confusing stuff, thanks for covering this

[foreyutoobe]

Your tutorials are great, but I'm running into a problem that I don't see anywhere. My module (the main.py in your video) that has the script I'm trying to package isn't being included in the wheel or in the tar.gz dist
I have to put in an empty package above it, for it to be included... Every stackoverflow/packagingpython doc that I've seen lays it out like how you did and the main.py shows up. It just doesn't for me

[foreyutoobe]

So I uploaded a pygame to pypi using this kind of setup, but when I pip install it I'm getting a ModuleNotFound Error even though all my packages/package_data is in the site-library. Any advice?

[jrib]

How would I use the package_data option in setup.cfg to include a CSV file in a data directory at the root of the project (outside the package folder)? I tried

[options.package_data]
* = ../data/stuff.csv

but it had no effect.

[talalkalai]

As part of my package installation I need to download some binaries from a repo. These binaries are not part of my project!. Is there an alternative for `setuptools.command.install`?

[senyai]

I want to copy my 'doc' directory that is at the same level as setup.py inside 'pypkg' directory. Currently I subclass and do all the copying by hand, but that looks bad.