On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
2. The resulting egg file is much larger than the .zip file created by 'python setup.py sdist' in spite of exclude_package_data = { '': ['*.pyc','*.pyo']},
Is there any way to exclude .pyc and .pyo files?
No; you can exclude the source if you like, though, with --exclude-source-files. Eggs are a binary distribution format, originally developed to support user-installed plugins for systems like Chandler, Zope, etc. They aren't a source distribution format; sdist works well enough for that and for easy_install if you have a pure-Python package (or your users have C compilers).
I would prefer to ship compiled C modules and source .py files. For one thing, compressed source .py files are usually around 25% smaller than compressed .pyc files. For another thing, I value making source available to the end-user, and I am loathe to ship non-source unless I really have to (which I pretty much do for C extension modules). So, please accept this as a feature request to make the above- mentioned behavior configurable for users such as me. Regards, Zooko