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

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 22:35:25 CEST 2012

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:26 PM, 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.”

I mean to say that just because there is a .data/ directory it doesn't mean you have to stop using pkgutil.get_data(package, resource). Some people will take those 4 letters "data" to mean that any file that doesn't start with .py has to go there instead of in the root of the archive.

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