如何在python distutils中包含隐藏文件？

Question

My package has a hidden directory I want to distribute as package data. I include the following in distutils.setup(...) :

[...]
package_data={'mypkg': ['.hg/*']},
[...]

However this syntax does not work: when I run python setup.py install , the directory .hg is not included in the package. I believe the problem is in the directory name .hg , because if I replace .hg with hg , then the following will work as expected.

[...]
package_data={'mypkg': ['hg/*']},
[...]

Unfortunately the directory name has to be .hg for Mercurial to work. Is there a workaround to this issue?

Answer 1

Seems to work with setuptools (instead of distutils ):

package_data={'mypkg': ['../.git/*']}

includes .git/* (non-recursive) in sdist , bdist_egg and bdist_wheel .