[Distutils] Python module for use in ‘setup.py’ but not to install

[Ben Finney]

Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> writes:

> I’m pretty sure that find_packages is going to discover version.py and
> add it as part of the return value which is then passing that to the
> packages kwarg.

That doesn't match the documentation for ‘find_packages’:

    find_packages() walks the target directory, filtering by inclusion
    patterns, and finds Python packages (any directory).
    […]
    the find_packages() function returns a list of package names
    suitable for use as the packages argument to setup() […]

    <URL:https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#using-find-packages>

That and other language in that document strongly imply that packages
are the only things found by ‘find_packages’.

The ‘version.py’ module is not within any package, so I infer that
‘find_packages’ should ignore it. Is that wrong?

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Ben Finney