Help with Python setup.py with multiple folders

Question

I'm trying to build my program on the OBS. Could you please tell me what the setup.py should look like to create a folder structure, for example if I have this:

../MyProgram
COPYING
README
mainscript.pyw
/applications
    /app1
        /icons
            pic1.png
        app1.py
    /app2
        /icons
            pic2.png
        /scripts
            script1.py
            script2.py
        app2.py

etc.

I read the Python Docs, played with 'package_dir', 'packages' but the OBS still gives me errors it can't find the icon files. I guess the setup script doesn't create them. And when I tried to build an rpm locally, it gave me the same error. When I looked in the BUILD folder, there was no folder 'applications' created and nothing below it.

Will really appreciate your help. Please provide an example. Thank you.

Cédric Julien · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-06 08:28:08Z

5

You can try to add in your MANIFEST.in the following line :

recursive-include applications *.png

to include all the icons.

To embed your python files, try to explicitly declare your packages like this :

setup(
   packages=[
      "applications",
      "applications.app1",
      "applications.app2",
      "applications.app2.scripts",
   ],
   data_files=[    # declare the list of  data_files (destination directory, (data files))
      ("applications/app1/icons", ("applications/app1/icons/pic1.png",)),
      ("applications/app2/icons", ("applications/app2/icons/pic2.png",)),
   ]
   .... # your other setup options (name, version...)
)

but you'll have to put __init__.py files under each directory to allow python to take them as packages.

answered Jun 6, 2011 at 8:28

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jonathan Over a year ago

why not use graft?

User · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-08 21:38:05Z

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I found help here: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Tutorial

You create a Manifest.in file for the files you like to include:

recursive-include applications/app1/icons *.png
recursive-include applications/app2/icons *.png

answered Jun 8, 2016 at 21:38

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