I've got a script that is an executable and it reads template files that should be packaged with the script. How do I tell the script where to find the templates?
In distutils, there's a package_data option, but that installs the templates under the /usr/lib/pythonX.XX/... directory, which seems like the wrong directory in the unix hierarchy. Traditionally, this kind of data goes under /usr/share. There's also the data_files option, but that can be overridden on the install command line with --install-data directory, and the scripts/modules don't get informed (or do they? if so, how?) Googling around, people seem to write big install scripts to get around this, subclassing from distutils/setuptools and "manually" replacing certain tags in their modules with the final data directory. Is that the only way to do this properly? Is there a pre-packaged solution not in Python's library that takes care of it, maybe similarly to the auto-tools config.h.in substitution? If so, could someone point me to it? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list