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The
<span class=
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</span> option can be used to specify additional
files needed by the module distribution: configuration files, message
catalogs, data files, anything which doesn't fit in the previous
<span class=
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</span> specifies a sequence of (
<var>directory
</var>,
<var>files
</var>) pairs in the following way:
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data_files=[('bitmaps', ['bm/b1.gif', 'bm/b2.gif']),
('config', ['cfg/data.cfg']),
('/etc/init.d', ['init-script'])]
Note that you can specify the directory names where the data files
will be installed, but you cannot rename the data files themselves.
Each (
<var>directory
</var>,
<var>files
</var>) pair in the sequence specifies the
installation directory and the files to install there. If
<var>directory
</var> is a relative path, it is interpreted relative to the
installation prefix (Python's
<code>sys.prefix
</code> for pure-Python
packages,
<code>sys.exec_prefix
</code> for packages that contain extension
modules). Each file name in
<var>files
</var> is interpreted relative to
the
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distribution. No directory information from
<var>files
</var> is used to
determine the final location of the installed file; only the name of
You can specify the
<span class=
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</span> options as a simple sequence
of files without specifying a target directory, but this is not recommended,
and the
<code class=
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</code> command will print a warning in this case.
To install data files directly in the target directory, an empty
string should be given as the directory.
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