如何使用非 .py 扩展名的文件制作 python 包/分发？

Question

I want to make a package/distribution of the project above, but the main module uses icon.png and saves files into the data folder. When launching setup.py with the following code

from distutils.core import setup

setup(name='Project',
      version='1.0',
      py_modules=['Main'],
      )

it makes a tar.gz archive only with main.py. How to include other files?

Answer 1

According to the docs on readthedocs.com you should add a file MANIFEST.in where you can include the files you wish to pack in your package.

include <project_name>/resources/icon.png

Another note from the page:

In order for these files to be copied at install time to the package's folder inside site-packages, you'll need to supply include_package_data=True to the setup() function.