the 'right way' to distribute and access data files in a packaged Python module

[David Moss]

> There is a zip-safe flag that you can specify that tells setuptools that
> installing your egg only works if it is unarchived. However, there is also
> the pkg_resources-package that allows you to access streams from within a
> package, even if it is zipped. You should investigate these two options.
>
> Diez

Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks Diez!