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Including non-Python files with setup.py

May 21, 2022 by IT Nursery

How do I make setup.py include a file that isn’t part of the code? (Specifically, it’s a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of the package. (i.e. on the … Read more

Differences between distribute, distutils, setuptools and distutils2?

April 29, 2022 by IT Nursery

The Situation I’m trying to port an open-source library to Python 3. (SymPy, if anyone is wondering.) So, I need to run 2to3 automatically when building for Python 3. To do that, I need to use distribute. Therefore, I need to port the current system, which (according to the doctest) is distutils. The Problem Unfortunately, … Read more