Excluding a top-level directory from a setuptools package

Question

I\'m trying to put a Python project into a tarball using setuptools. The problem is that setuptools doesn\'t appear to like the way that the source tree was originally setu

Answer 1

This is what I found in setuptools manual:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
...
packages = find_packages(exclude=["*.tests", "*.tests.*", "tests.*", "tests"]),

In my case the following was enough to exclude top-level tests directory:

packages = find_packages(exclude=["tests.*", "tests"]),