Distutils: correct setup script

Martyn Quick martyn_quick at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Nov 27 16:57:50 EST 2002


I think I am misunderstanding the correct way to create a setup script
for distutils.  I've written a collection of python modules with the
follow structure:

basedir: contains most of the modules and a script  'myscript.py' 
which is the one I run python on.

basedir/data: a package containing a file  '__init__.py' (as it
should) and then various data files

I tried a setup of the following type:


# setup.py
from distutils.core import setup

setup(name="MQscript",
      packages = 'data',
      py_modules = ['module1', 'module2', ... ])

However, this gave the error that I'm not allowed to list modules and
packages at the same time.

What's the correct form for my setup file?

Cheers,
Martyn



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