Name
data_files
Synopsis
data_files=[list of pairs(target_directory,[list of files]) ]
The value of keyword argument data_files is a list
of pairs. Each pair’s first item is a string and
names a target directory (i.e., a directory
where distutils places data files when installing
the distribution); the second item is the list of file path strings
for files to put in the target directory. At installation time,
distutils places each target directory as a
subdirectory of Python’s
sys.prefix for a pure distribution, or of
Python’s sys.exec_prefix for a
non-pure distribution. distutils places the given
files directly in the respective target directory, never in
subdirectories of the target. For example, given the following
data_files usage:
data_files = [ ('miscdata', ['conf/config.txt',
'misc/sample.txt']) ]
distutils includes in the distribution the file
config.txt from sub-directory
conf of the distribution root, and the file
sample.txt from subdirectory
misc of the distribution root. At installation
time, distutils creates a subdirectory named
miscdata in Python’s
sys.prefix directory (or in the
sys.exec_prefix directory, if the distribution is
non-pure), and copies the two files into
miscdata/config.txt and
miscdata/sample.txt.
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