setuptools troubles — excluding packages, including data files

I'm fairly new to setuptools. I've seen a few similar questions and it drives a little bit insane that I've seemed to follow advice I saw but setuptools still does something different than what I want.

Here is the structure of my project:

.
..
package1/
    __init__.py
    abc.py
    ...
tests/
    __init__.py
    test_package1.py
LICENSE
README.md
RELEASE
setup.py

And here is the contents of my setup.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
#from distutils.core import setup
from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name='package1',
    version='1.1',
    test_suite="tests",
    packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests']),    
    include_package_data=True,
    package_data = {
        '': ['LICENSE', 'README.md5', 'RELEASE']
    },   
)

Also, in my manifest file I have:

include LICENSE
include RELEASE
include README.md

I build the tar with:

python setup.py sdist

I want to:

Exclude tests directory from the source distribution;
Have LICENSE, README.md, RELEASE files in the site-packages directory, either at the top level, or inside the package1 directory (at this point I will agree to either).

Instead, here's what happens:

tests directory remains to be in the created tar archive and gets installed to the site-packages;
Files are copied to the archive, but do not get installed to the site-packaged directory of the package.

I am out of ideas, can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it?

You should create a new file called MANIFEST.in in the root level of your package, then follow these instructions:

To control which files end up in your tar file, create a new file called MANIFEST.in in the root level of your package. For example, you can exclude whole directories from your distribution, using recursive-exclude in the MANIFEST.in file. In your case, you need your MANIFEST.in file to contain:
```
recursive-exclude tests *
```
It's not common to include README and other files in the site-packages directory, but if you really want to, then go inside package1 and create symbolic links to the files you want to include:
```
cd package1
ln -s ../LICENSE
ln -s ../README.md
ln -s ../RELEASE
```
Then change the following line in your setup.py:
```
package_data = {
    '': ['LICENSE', 'README.md', 'RELEASE']
```
to:
```
package_data = {
    'package1': ['LICENSE', 'README.md', 'RELEASE']
```

oby1

find_packages uses fnmatchcase for its exclude filtering. You can test if your exclusion pattern matches a package name as follows:

>>> from fnmatch import fnmatchcase
>>> fnmatchcase('my.package.name.tests', 'tests')
False

Assuming all the tests in your project live in package names ending in tests or subpackages of those packages, the following should suffice to exclude all the test code:

setup(
    name='package1',
    version='1.1',
    packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests', '*.tests', '*.tests.*']),    
)

To also exclude the tests folder from source distributions, add the following to MANIFEST.in:

recursive-exclude tests *

ornoone

if your structure is true:

the tests folder is not a package (it doesn't have the init.py file), so find_package don't exclude it.
include_package_data=True mean that all versionned files will be included if not explicitly excluded .

so : try an exclude tests/* in your MANIFEST.in

I Hope it had helped

MANIFEST.in would take care of it.

prune tests/
include LICENSE  README.md RELEASE

if you have static files to be added, add them with

...
recursive-include package1/static *

I was trying everything and nothing seemed to work, until I deleted the build directory (after seeing another answer mentioning *.egg-info/ directory) and it finally worked. python setup.py clean --all should also do the job.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8556996/setuptools-troubles-excluding-packages-including-data-files

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