The distutils documentation here states that: A C extension for CPython is a shared library (e.g. a .so file on Linux, .pyd on Windows), which exports an initialization function. So the only difference regarding a plain shared library seems to be the initialization function (besides a sensible file naming convention I don’t think you have … Read more
Install setuptools in your machine pip install setuptools This solved my problem
Try using setuptools instead of distutils.
Yes setuptools can fully replace distutils for everything distutils.core.setup maps to setuptools.setup distutils.core.Extension maps to setuptools.Extension setuptools is not part of the standard library (hence its absence from the doc) but it is part of the standard python.org distribution. some distributions choose to separate setuptools and pip from the default python package because they don’t … Read more
setuptools.setup() calls distutils.core.setup() and passes it’s own **kwargs as the only parameter, so any keywords that distutils accepts will also be accepted by setuptools. If we go look at distutils setup_keywords = (‘distclass’, ‘script_name’, ‘script_args’, ‘options’, ‘name’, ‘version’, ‘author’, ‘author_email’, ‘maintainer’, ‘maintainer_email’, ‘url’, ‘license’, ‘description’, ‘long_description’, ‘keywords’, ‘platforms’, ‘classifiers’, ‘download_url’, ‘requires’, ‘provides’, ‘obsoletes’, ) Most … Read more
Try using pkg_resources, which is part of setuptools (and available on all of the pythons I have access to right now): >>> import pkg_resources >>> pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__, “foo.config”) ‘foo.config’ >>> pkg_resources.resource_filename(‘tempfile’, “foo.config”) ‘/usr/lib/python2.4/foo.config’ There’s more discussion about using pkg_resources to get resources on the eggs page and the pkg_resources page. Also note, where possible it’s probably … Read more
It depends on how the user installs your package. If the user actually runs “setup.py install”, it’s fairly easy: Just add another subcommand to the install command (say, install_vim), whose run() method will copy the files you want in the places where you want them. You can add your subcommand to install.sub_commands, and pass the … Read more
1) Distributing libbig.so This is a problem that python isn’t going to help you with. Who are you targeting? If it’s linux, can you request that they install it with their package manager? If libbig isn’t distributed through a package manager or it’s not linux and you’re targeting multiple architectures, you might have to distribute … Read more
The way to address these deficiences is: Get the full path to the Python interpreter executing setup.py from sys.executable. Classes inheriting from setuptools.Command (such as setuptools.command.install.install which we use here) implement the execute method, which executes a given function in a “safe way” i.e. respecting the dry-run flag. Note however that the –dry-run option is … Read more
This is like using the src-layout for the “foo” and “bar” packages, but the flat layout for “baz”. It’s possible, but requires some custom configuration in the setup.py. Setuptools’ find_packages supports a “where” keyword (docs), you can use that. setup( … packages=( find_packages() + find_packages(where=”./bar-pack”) + find_packages(where=”./foo-pack”) ), … ) Since find_packages returns a plain … Read more