Python distutils error: “[directory]… doesn't exist or not a regular file”

Question

Let\'s take the following project layout:

$ ls -R .
.:
package  setup.py

./package:
__init__.py  dir  file.dat  module.py

./package/dir:
tool1.dat  tool2.dat
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Answer 1

You could use Distribute instead of distutils. It works basically the same (for the most part, you will not have to change your setup.py) and it gives you the exclude_package_data option:

from distribute_setup import use_setuptools
use_setuptools()

from setuptools import setup

setup(name='pyproj',
      version='0.1',

      packages=[
          'package',
      ],
      package_data={
          'package': [
              '*.dat',
              'dir/*'
          ],
      },
      exclude_package_data={
          'package': [
              'dir'
          ],
      },
     )