On Jan 31, 2010, at 08:53 PM, Umang wrote: >But I'll never find my data files in sys.prefix + >path_i_asked_distutils_to_install_to. So what according to you, is the >right way to go about distributing? This situation is definitely not ideal.
The Pythonic way (IMO) is to use pkg_resources: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources and especially the resource_string() and resource_stream() APIs. This means if your data file is under mypkg.mydata (yes, you'll have an __init__.py in your data directory), you can access your data file by either: mydata = pkg_resources.resource_string('mypkg.mydata', 'foo.dat') or mydata_fileobj = pkg_resources.resource_stream('mypkg.mydata', 'foo.dat') The module contains a lot of extra stuff that I find is rarely if ever used, but might make for an interesting read. :) Hope that helps, -Barry
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