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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:19:07+00:00

I have a simple, pure python project that I want to make available with

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I have a simple, pure python project that I want to make available with distutils. I have successfully created compressed tar files for the python modules and some license text files. These are the relevant parts of the setup.py setup argument list:

  packages=['pkgA',
            'pkgA.subpkgA1',
            'pkgA.subpkgA2'],
  requires = ['matplotlib', 'pytest'],
  data_files = [ 'COPYING', 'COPYING.LESSER'],

The only problem is that this also puts the license files in the distribution, directly under sys.prefix. I would like to ship the license files in the source distribution, but not install them when python setup.py install is run. I currently have no MANIFEST.in file and no post build actions.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You don’t have to put anything in data_files. The arguments to distutils.core.setup (py_modules, packages, data_files, etc.) control what will be built and installed; to distribute additional file, use a MANIFEST.in file: http://docs.python.org/dev/distutils/sourcedist#specifying-the-files-to-distribute There you can have your COPYING file, Python files for tests, anything, and they will not be installed.

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