Re: [Distutils] How can I get setuptools to include files beyond what find_packages() finds?

July 31, 2007


      Stanley A. Klein wrote:
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Robert Kern wrote:
Stanley A. Klein wrote:
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I tried to do something to fix the numpy distutils bdist_rpm.py (by
trying to follow what was done in install.py) but it didn't work and I
got an error message I didn't understand.
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I'd like to help, but if you don't copy the exact error message here, I
can't.
OK, here is my revised numpy/distutils/commands/bdist_rpm.py (trying --
obviously not well -- to follow what was done in
numpy/distutils/commands/install.py:
import os
import sys
if 'setuptools' in sys.modules:
    import setuptools.command.bdist_rpm as old_bdist_rpm
    class bdist_rpm(old_bdist_rpm):
        pass
else:
    from distutils.command.bdist_rpm import bdist_rpm as old_bdist_rpm
Note the difference between these two lines. You imported a module, not the
class inside it. Try this instead:

if 'setuptools' in sys.modules:
    from setuptools.command.bdist_rpm import bdist_rpm as old_bdist_rpm
else:
    from distutils.command.bdist_rpm import bdist_rpm as old_bdist_rpm

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco