distutils

I have a Python project in which I am using many non-code files. Currently these are all images, but I might use other kinds of files in the future. What would be a good scheme for storing and referencing these files? I considered just making a folder "resources" in the main directory, but there is a problem; Some images are used from within sub-packages of my project. Storing these images that way would lead to coupling, which is a disadvantage. Also, I need a way to access these files which is independent on what my current directory is. You may want to use pkg_resources library that comes

For example, I may use python setup.py build --compiler=msvc or python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 or just python setup.py build , in which case the default compiler (say, bcpp ) will be used. How can I get the compiler name inside my setup.py (e. g. msvc , mingw32 and bcpp , respectively)? UPD.: I don't need the default compiler, I need the one that is actually going to be used, which is not necessarily the default one. So far I haven't found a better way than to parse sys.argv to see if there's a --compiler... string there. This is an expanded version of Luper Rouch's answer that

I'm trying to copy /home/myUser/dir1/ and all its contents (and their contents, etc.) to /home/myuser/dir2/ in python. Furthermore, I want the copy to overwrite everything in dir2/ . It looks like distutils.dir_util.copy_tree might be the right tool for the job, but not sure if there's anything easier/more obvious to use for such a simple task. If it is the right tool, how do I use it? According to the docs there are 8 parameters that it takes. Do I have to pass all 8 are just src , dst and update , and if so, how (I'm brand new to Python). If there's something out there that's better, can

Please prompt me how to pass a user-defined parameter both from the command line and setup.cfg configuration file to distutils' setup.py script. I want to write a setup.py script, which accepts my package specific parameters. For example: python setup.py install -foo myfoo Thank you, Mher Cerin As Setuptools/Distuils are horribly documented, I had problems finding the answer to this myself. But eventually I stumbled across this example. Also, this similar question was helpful. Basically, a custom command with an option would look like: from distutils.core import setup, Command class

I was trying to install Python packages a system I recently gained access to. I was trying to take advantage of Python's relatively new per user site-packages directory , and the new option --user . (The option is currently undocumented , however it exists for Python 2.6+; you can see the help by running python setup.py install --help .) When I tried running python setup.py install --user on any package I downloaded, I always got the following error: error: can't combine user with with prefix/exec_prefix/home or install_(plat)base The error was extremely perplexing because, as you can see, I