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

Not quite sure why, but after some troubleshooting I realised that renaming the directories that had dots in their names solved the problem. E.g.

chart.js-2.4.0 => chart_js-2_4_0

Note: I'm using Python 2.7.10, SetupTools 12.2