Is it possible to include subdirectories using dist utils (setup.py) as part of package data?

Question

Basically my python package is setup like:

module
\\_examples
  \\_folder1
     \\_file1.py
     \\_file2.py
  \\_folder2
    \\_file1.py
    \\_file2.py
         


        

Answer 1

None of the suggested answers worked for me in a similar situation.

I needed to make a distribution with my package, which included several sub-modules in a sub-directory, so that these were the files I needed to go into sdist:

ipyexperiments/*py
ipyexperiments/utils/*py

and no matter what I tried, the subdir utils's modules were not getting included in sdist.

What worked for me is leaving config.py's default:

# config.py
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
[...]
setup(
    packages = find_packages(),
    [...]
)

but adding to MANIFEST.in:

# MANIFEST.in
graft ipyexperiments

and everything under ipyexperiments was included.

If you don't already have MANIFEST.in, create it at the same directory as config.py.

I also added to MANIFEST.in

prune tests
global-exclude *.py[co]

to exclude all of tests directory and any unwanted *pyc and *.pyo files anywhere.