Managing resources in a Python project

Question

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 sch

Answer 1

@ pycon2009, there was a presentation on distutils and setuptools. You can find all of the videos here

Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python - Part 1

Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python - Part 2

Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python - Part 3

In these videos, they describe how to include static resources in your package. I believe its in part 2.

With setuptools, you can define dependancies, this would allow you to have 2 packages that use resources from 3rd package.

Setuptools also gives you a standard way of accessing these resources and allows you to use relative paths inside of your packages, which eliminates the need to worry about where your packages are installed.