Add Data Files to Python Package

Add Data Files to Python Package using manifest.in and setup.py

Suppose we have a file auth.json for some credentials for the package.

First of all, include this file in your MANIFEST.in

include hl_42/config/auth.json

To make it work, we have to enable include_package_data in setup.py. For example, we could write the setup function like this:

from setuptools import setup as _setup

def setup():
    _setup(name = PACKAGE_NAME,
      version = PACKAGE_VERSION,
      description = PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION,
      long_description = PACKAGE_LONG_DESCRIPTION,
      url = PACKAGE_URL,
      author = 'Lei Ma',
      author_email = '[email protected]',
      license = 'MIT',
      packages = _find_packages(exclude=('tests',)),
      include_package_data=True,
      test_suite='nose.collector',
      tests_require=['nose'],
      zip_safe=False)

Planted: 2019-03-13 by Lei Ma;

References:

Including non-Python files with setup.py