i'm using the "data_files" argument to try and copy extra files into my installation folder... setup (name = "pygame", ... data_files = [['pygame', data_files]] ) my data_files variable is just a list of filenames i want copied into the package installation directory. under windows, this is working perfectly. under linux, this installs my data files to "/usr/pygame". not very good. it would seem like the windows behaviour would be what is wanted. is there any way i can get this working with the current version of distutils? some sort of "if not sys.platform == 'win32':" and put the full path into this argument? is there a way for my distutils script to find the directory where packages will be installed to? if i knew that i could get it hacked in on my own.