At 09:15 AM 4/30/2008 -0600, Michael Hearne wrote:

I'm having trouble bundling any kind of data (non-Python code) in my egg.

Here are the file contents of my source directory:

hello.py (cheesy script)

README.txt

MANIFEST.in (has one line, "include *.txt")

setup.py, which looks like:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(

   name = "HelloWorld",

   version = "0.1",

   scripts=['hello.py'],

   include_package_data = True

)

I'm creating the egg with python setup.py bdist_egg.

I would expect that README.txt should appear in the egg somewhere, but it doesn't.

What am I missing?

README.txt isn't in a package, so it's not "package data".  And MANIFEST.in determines what goes in your *source* distribution, not your binary distribution.