I've been googling for a while now and cannot find a good way to deal with this.
I have a slightly messy python program I wrote that I've historically just run from the extracted source folder. I have pictures and sound files in this folder that this program uses. I've always just used the relative path names of these files in my program. Lately, I had the idea of cleaning up my program and packaging it with distutils, but I've been stuck on a good way to deal with these resource files. The package_data keyword seems to be the way to go, but how can I locate and open my files once they've been moved? In other words, what should I do about changing the relative path names? I need something that could work from both the extracted source folder, AND when the program gets installed via the python setup.py install command. -- Sam Peterson skpeterson At nospam ucdavis.edu "if programmers were paid to remove code instead of adding it, software would be much better" -- unknown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
