On Oct 2, 7:04 am, Patrick Sabin <patrick.just4...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use setuptools to create a package. In this package I included some > images and I checked that they are in the egg-file. The problem is how > can I access the images in the package? > > I tried pkgutil.get_data, but only got an IOError, because the EGG-INFO > directory doesn't exist. > > I tried > pkg_resources.get_distribution('dist').get_metadata('images/image.png') > with a similar error (IOError) > > What is the best way to access images distributed in an egg file?
The resource_stream(), resource_string(), or resource_filename() functions: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#basic-resource-access > > -Patrick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list