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I have a python module that is basically a big wrapper (which does lots more stuff besides) for an external binary (non python). I would like to include the binaries (1 binary for osx, 1 for linux) along with my code. I currently have the following in my setup.py:
package_data={'packagename': ['lib/app-osx/*', 'lib/app-linux/*', 'lib/*.awk']},
and the files are located at:
/packagename
/lib
script.awk
/app-osx/
app
/app-linux
app
I can't seem to find where they are installed, if they are at all? Is there a convention for this? I obviously can't use dependencies for this :(
And then, what's the best way of finding their location within the python script?
Thanks
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Place the files that you want to include in the package directory (in our case, the data has to reside in the roman/ directory). Add the field include_package_data=True in setup.py. Add the field package_data={'': [... patterns for files you want to include, relative to package dir...]} in setup.py .
A binary Python package is usually a packaged Python library that comes with one or more pre-compiled binary modules. Theses modules are usually . so or . dll libraries in binary (compiled) form.
Even in a vanilla version of Python 3.7. 6 (installed via pyenv ), the packages installed by default are both pip and setuptools .
In order to include your non-Python files into said package, you'll need to supply include_package_data=True to the setup() function.
With Jonathon's prompting, I went through the chat and found the solution that Lukas provided me. The solution was simply to add the following to the setup.py:
zip_safe=False
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