Making code run in both source tree and installation path

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-07-01 01:04, Carl Banks wrote:
> On Jun 29, 9:20 am, Javier Collado<javier.coll... at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I've seen different approaches:
>> - distutils trick in setup.py to modify the installed script (i.e.
>> changing a global variable value) so that it has a reference to the
>> data files location.
>
>
> One of my biggest complaints about distutils is that it doesn't do
> this, a limitation made worse by the fact that distutils allows you to
> specify an alternate data file directory, but your scripts have no way
> to know what that alternate directory is installed.  Which really
> limits the usefulness of that functionality.
>
> The most common way I've seen people work around this issue is to
> throw their data files into the package directories.  Yuck.

Huh. I always found that to be a more elegant solution than hardcoding the data 
location into the program at install-time.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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