Question

(forgive my poor English)

I’m writing setup.py for my Python app.

My app needs some static files (pictures). I should add these files to data_files array in setup.py, and files will be installed in “/usr/xxx” path on Linux.

Then how can my app access these files after installation? I don’t think it’s good idea to use abslote path (like /usr/share/xxx/xxx.png) in my app (it won’t work on windows).

Answer 1

You’re supposed to use sys.prefix instead of an absolute path:

filename = os.path.join(sys.prefix, "share", "xxx", "xxx.png")