Keith Perkins wrote: > On a similar note , I have another question about distutils and data files. > I have a little program that uses a txt file to store data, and it works > fine running it in it's own folder, if I install through distutils, using > sudo to get it to write to the site-packages folder (which root owns), it > installs the data file so that it is owned by root, and not by me, so > that the data file can't be written to (although the script can read it). > Do I need to run a post install script, or add something to setup.py file > to chown the file or am I doing something wrong? There doesn't seem to be > anything on this in the docs.
There's nothing in distutils specifically that will let you do this. The root user will have to chown/chgrp/chmod/chwhatever the package that you installed manually. You shouldn't use package data for things that are going to be modified. Instead, use a directory like ~/.myscript/ or something else. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
