Including .gitignore in setup? - Error: doesn't exist or not a regular file

Question

setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
from os import path
from functools import partial


if __name__ == '__main__':
    package_name = 'gen'
    templates_join = partial(path.join, path.dirname(__file__), package_name,
                             'templates')
    setup(
        name=package_name,
        test_suite=package_name + '.tests',
        packages=find_packages(),
        package_dir={package_name: package_name},
        package_data={package_name: [templates_join('.gitignore')]}
    )

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├── gen
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── templates
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── .gitignore
└── setup.py

Error

error: can't copy 'gen/ld/gen/templates/.gitignore': doesn't exist or not a regular file

flycee · Answer 1 · 2015-03-17T12:39:32.577

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Try use abspath(split(__file__)[0]) instead.

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
from functools import partial
from os.path import join, abspath, split

if __name__ == '__main__':
    package_name = 'gen'
    templates_join = partial(join, abspath(split(__file__)[0]), 'gen', 'templates')

    setup(
        name=package_name,
        test_suite=package_name + '.tests',
        packages=find_packages(),
        package_dir={package_name: package_name},
        package_data={package_name: [templates_join('.gitignore')]}
    )

Let me know if it's work.

edited Mar 17 '15 at 12:39

answered Mar 17 '15 at 09:36

flycee

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Unfortunately that failed. Would prefer to use stdlib rather than `os2emxpath`; which is what I tested with. – A T Mar 17 '15 at 09:43
Yeah, however I've tried that and it didn't work for me. Did it work for you? – A T Mar 17 '15 at 11:24
Yeah, it works for me. Oh sorry, package 'gen' should be added. Use the new answer and try again. – flycee Mar 17 '15 at 12:39
No, that also failed. – A T Mar 18 '15 at 03:20

A T · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-19T05:57:49.383

Confirmed that using data_files works inside/outside a virtualenv on Linux and Windows:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
from os import path
from functools import partial
from pip import __file__ as pip_loc


if __name__ == '__main__':
    package_name = 'gen'

    templates_join = partial(path.join, path.dirname(__file__),
                             package_name, 'templates')
    install_to = path.join(path.split(path.split(pip_loc)[0])[0],
                           package_name, 'templates')

    setup(
        name=package_name,
        version='0.0.1',
        test_suite=package_name + '.tests',
        packages=find_packages(),
        package_dir={package_name: package_name},
        data_files=[(install_to, [templates_join('.gitignore'),
                                  templates_join('logging.conf')])]
    )

Including .gitignore in setup? - Error: doesn't exist or not a regular file

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