Python distutils error: “[directory]… doesn't exist or not a regular file”

Question

Let\'s take the following project layout:

$ ls -R .
.:
package  setup.py

./package:
__init__.py  dir  file.dat  module.py

./package/dir:
tool1.dat  tool2.dat
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Answer 1

I created a function that gives me all the files that I need

def find_files(directory, strip):
  """
  Using glob patterns in ``package_data`` that matches a directory can
  result in setuptools trying to install that directory as a file and
  the installation to fail.

  This function walks over the contents of *directory* and returns a list
  of only filenames found. The filenames will be stripped of the *strip*
  directory part.
  """

  result = []
  for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
    for filename in files:
      filename = os.path.join(root, filename)
      result.append(os.path.relpath(filename, strip))
  return result

And used that as arugment for package_data