[Distutils] Installing a file into sitepackages

[Stuart Axon]

Hi All    This, and another memory-leak bug were triggered by the sandbox.   Would it be possible to either add an API to exempt files, or just allow writing within site packages, even if just for .pth files ?

I'm monkey patching around these for now
https://github.com/stuaxo/vext/blob/master/setup.py#L16

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     On Thursday, March 12, 2015 2:54 PM, Stuart Axon <stuaxo2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
   
 

 For closure:  The solution was to make a Command class + implement finalize_options to fixup the paths in distribution.data_files.

Source:
# https://gist.github.com/stuaxo/c76a042cb7aa6e77285b"""Install a file into the root of sitepackages on windows as well as linux.
Under normal operation on win32 path_to_site_packagesgets changed to '' which installs inside the .egg instead."""
import os
from distutils import sysconfigfrom distutils.command.install_data import install_datafrom setuptools import setup
here = os.path.normpath(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
site_packages_path = sysconfig.get_python_lib()site_packages_files = ['TEST_FILE.TXT']
class _install_data(install_data):    def finalize_options(self):        """        On win32 the files here are changed to '' which        ends up inside the .egg, change this back to the        absolute path.        """        install_data.finalize_options(self)        global site_packages_files        for i, f in enumerate(list(self.distribution.data_files)):            if not isinstance(f, basestring):                folder, files = f                if files == site_packages_files:                    # Replace with absolute path version                    self.distribution.data_files[i] = (site_packages_path, files)
setup(    cmdclass={'install_data': _install_data},    name='test_install',    version='0.0.1',
    description='',    long_description='',    url='https://example.com',    author='Stuart Axon',    author_email='stuaxo2 at yahoo.com',    license='PD',    classifiers=[],    keywords='',    packages=[],
    install_requires=[],
    data_files=[        (site_packages_path, site_packages_files),    ],
)


On Tue, 10 Mar, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Stuart Axon <stuaxo2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

I had more of a dig into this, with a minimal setup.py:https://gist.github.com/stuaxo/c76a042cb7aa6e77285bsetup calls install_dataOn win32 setup.py calls install_data which copies the file into the egg - even though I have given the absolute path to sitepackagesC:\> python setup.py install....running install_datacreating build\bdist.win32\eggcopying TEST_FILE.TXT -> build\bdist.win32\egg\ ....On Linux the file is copied to the right path:$ python setup.py install.....installing package data to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/eggrunning install_datacopying TEST_FILE.TXT -> /mnt/data/home/stu/.virtualenvs/tmpv/lib/python2.7/site-packages....*something* is normalising my absolute path to site packages into just '' - it's possible to see by looking at self.data_files in the 'run' function in:distutils/command/install_data.py- on windows it the first part has been changed to '' unlike on linux where it's the absolute path I set... still not sure where it's happening though.*This all took a while, as rebuilt VM and verified on 2.7.8 and 2.7.9..S++
 On Monday, March 9, 2015 12:17 AM, Stuart Axon <stuaxo2 at yahoo.com> wrote: > I had a further look - and on windows the file ends up inside the .egg file, on linux it ends up inside the site packages as intended. At a guess it seems like there might be a bug in the path handling on windows. .. I wonder if it's something like this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4579908/cross-platform-splitting-of-path-in-python which seems an easy way to get an off-by-one error in a path ? 



 
  
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