Include *.pyd files in Python Packages

Question

I have a python module module.pyd that works pretty fine once it is put manually onto the site-packages of python installation folder.

The problem star

Answer 1

Just use the MANIFEST.in:

recursive-include module *.pyd

This will include all pyd files in the module directory.

Your package layout should be the following:

module/
--- __init__.py
--- _module.pyd
--- module.py
MANIFEST.in
README.rst
setup.py

And don't forget to add include_package_data=True in setup() in your setup.py in order to force using MANIFEST.in when building wheels and win32 installers (else MANIFEST.in will only be used for source tarball/zip).

Minimal example of setup():

README_rst = ''
with open('README.rst', mode='r', encoding='utf-8') as fd:
    README_rst = fd.read()

setup(
    name='module',
    version='0.0.1',
    description='Cool short description',
    author='Author',
    author_email='author@mail.com',
    url='repo.com',
    packages=['module'],
    long_description=README_rst,
    include_package_data=True,
    classifiers=[
        # Trove classifiers
        # The full list is here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers
        'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
    ]
)