Distributing pre-built libraries with python modules

Question

I use the following script to distribute a module containing pure python code.

from distutils.core import setup, Extension
import os
setup (name = \'mtester\         


        

Answer 1

Unfortunately package_data looks for files relative to the top of the package. One fix is to move the helper library under the module dir with the rest of the code:

% mv lib64/mhelper.so module/

Then modify the package_data argument accordingly:

package_data = {'mtester': ['mhelper.so']}
...

Then test:

% python setup.py bdist
% tar tf dist/mtester-0.1.linux-x86_64.tar.gz | grep mhelper
./usr/local/lib/python2.5/dist-packages/mtester/mhelper.so