[Python-Dev] PEP 427: data directory (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Oct 22 22:28:39 CEST 2012

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:26:57 -0400 Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > The FAQ has this weird statement: > > “This specification does not have an opinion on how you should organize > your code. The .data directory is just a place for any files that are > not normally installed inside site-packages or on the PYTHONPATH.” > > But, say, if I want to install some init script to /etc/init.d by using > distutils' datafiles argument: > > setup.py(..., > datafiles=[('/etc/init.d', ['my-init-script'])] > ) > > How is it stored and represented by the wheel format? > > Regards > > Antoine.

Distutils' "data" category in a wheel package-1.0.data/data/ directory usually maps to / (or the root of the virtualenv). Your init script would probably wind up in there.

Ok, thanks. Might be nice to add as a FAQ entry :-)

Regards

Antoine.

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