I'm developing an Python egg that has several .txt dependencies (they're templates used to generate files by the egg itself), and I'm struggling to get those dependencies copied to site-packages
during setup.py install
. According to the distribute
documentation...
Filesystem of my package:
setup.py
package
|--- __init__.py
|--- main.py
|--- binary (calls main.py with pkg_resources.load_entry_point)
|--- templates
|--file1.txt
|--file2.txt
In setup.py:
setup(
[...]
eager_resources = ['templates/file1.txt', 'templates/file2.txt']
)
Within my package:
from pkg_resources import resource_string
tpl = resource_string(__name__, 'templates/file1.txt')
...this combination of configuration and filesystem should result in file1.txt
and file2.txt
being available through pkg_resources.resource_string
. Unfortunately, they're not being copied to site-packages
during setup.py install
. What am I missing?
Thanks!