Anthony Baxter wrote:
For the spambayes project, I have a distutils setup that installs the 'spambayes' package. I also (for 2.2) want it to install copies of 'sets.py' and 'heapq.py' modules into site-packages. Unfortunately distutils will let me have a 'packages' line, or a 'py_modules' line, but not both. Is there an easy way to do this that doesn't involve subclassing a distutils command?
I managed to do something like that by doing this: packages = <list of packages> package_dir = <dict of package dirs> if <need to install extra stuff>: packages.append('') package_dir[''] = 'DirContainingExtraTopLevelModules' setup( ... packages = packages, package_dir = package_dir, ) It's still a kludge, as you can only have one such directory. Just