Hello,

I am looking for the simplest way to package the html files related to a pure python module. At this point, I would like to just embed them in the source tarball generated by distribute and leave it to a debian or fedora package to install them. I would like a source tarball laid out as the following:

wordish-1.0.2/ setup.py wordish.py docs/ index.html command-ref.html

So far, I tended to use a single file python module because there was no need for more and I wanted to keep it simple:

wordish/ setup.py wordish.py test_wordish.py

The setup.py is minimal: setup( py_modules = [ 'wordish' ], ... )

But If I want to include docs, I must use the package_data command which expects a package name. So I think that to embed documentation in the source tarball, I should change the way I lay out the source repository to something like :

wordish/ setup.py wordish wordish.py __init__.py docs/ index.html command-ref.html test_wordish.py

The corresponding setup.py would be

setup( packages = [ 'wordish' ], package_data = {'wordish':['docs/*']}, ...

I am not sure this is the right way to do it, just to include documentations in the tarball:

- the package_data requires a package name, so I turn my pure python module into a package just for this reason

- package_data requires the data directory to be inside the package directory even though the html files are generated from doc sources located elsewhere,

- there is an extra level of directory to get to the Python sources module, it is my_virtualenv/wordish/wordish/wordish.py which does not add much.

Can this be simpler?

Thanks for your help,