Excluding a top-level directory from a setuptools package

Question

I\'m trying to put a Python project into a tarball using setuptools. The problem is that setuptools doesn\'t appear to like the way that the source tree was originally setu

Answer 1

Ug, setuptools makes this really tricky :(

I don't know if this is what you want, but one project I work on uses a combination of two things:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
...
packages = find_packages(exclude=['tests']),
data_files = os.walk(path_to_files),