Python Packaging: Data files are put properly in tar.gz file but are not installed to virtual environment

May 17, 2023 by Tarik

Found a solution that worked for me here.

Using setuptools==2.0.2 I did:

setuptools.setup(
    ...
    packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
    include_package_data=True,  # use MANIFEST.in during install
    ...
)