I'm having trouble getting the data_files argument of my setup.py to work with "python setup.py sdist" under Windows XP. Here is the data_files argument that I pass to setup().
data_files = [\ ('res','app.ico'), ('', 'preferences.xml'), ('res', glob.glob(os.path.join('res','*.png')))], ) My setup.py is in the same directory as "preferences.xml". I use this setup.py for both py2exe and sdist. When I use it for py2exe, the data_files are properly copied to the target directory. However, when I use it for sdist, none of the data_files are copied. If this were a directory problem, then setup.py would have failed earlier when I specified Application.py in the "scripts" argument. How can I get the data_files copied properly without having to manually edit the MANIFEST file? Thanks, Saketh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list