[Distutils] complicated setup

[Ethan Furman]

On 06/27/2013 11:55 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On 27 June 2013 18:31, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> It occur to me now that the reason I don't see this kind of error on
>>> my project is because in the setup.py I am just excluding the
>>> version-specific files based on what Python version the user has.
>>> Perhaps you should do the same--only install the Python 2 tests on
>>> Python 2 and so on.  Just make sure that the MANIFEST.in is set up to
>>> include both versions in the source distribution.  As long as you
>>> don't install the Py2 files in Py3 or vice versa it shoudn't try to
>>> compile the bytecode for those files.
>>
>> I would be willing to do that, but I don't know how, and so far my searching
>> hasn't yielded anything useful besides this mailing list.
>
> Do this do what you want:
>
> #setup.py
> import sys
> from distutils.core import setup
>
> package_data = {'enum': [...]}
>
> if sys.version_info >= (3,0):
>      package_data['enum'].append( 'test/py3_test_enum.py')
> else:
>      package_data['enum'].append( 'test/py2_test_enum.py')
>
> setup(package_data = package_data, ...)

Cool!

Is there a way to have files renamed?  Ideally the installed package would just have enum.py, test_enum.py, and not 
py2_enum.py and py2_test_enum.py

--
~Ethan~