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

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 22:26:57 CEST 2012

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.

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