How to include license file in setup.py script?

Question

I have written a Python extension module in C++. I plan to distribute the module with setuptools. There will be binary distributions for 32- and 64-bit Windows (built with

Answer 1

New setuptools (40.x) allows metadata, including license, to be stored in the setup.cfg's "metadata" section. If you use older setuptools you could provide license using the "license" named argument in your setup():

def read_text(file_name: str):
    return open(os.path.join(base_path, file_name)).read()


setup(
    name = 'Foo',
    version = '0.1.0',
    ext_modules = [Extension('Foo', glob('Source/*.cpp'))],
    # package_data = {'': ['LICENSE.txt']}
    license=read_text("LICENSE.txt")
)