How to exclude *.pyc and pycache from python wheels?

Question

What's the correct way to exclude files from a python wheel distribution package?

Editing the MANIFEST.in does not have any effect and I can't find information about this detail.

Do you have an example source code available? Would be nice to see a repo of this so it can be reproduced. — SomeGuyOnAComputer, Aug 20 '19 at 03:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '23 at 22:53

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I assume you are asking how to exclude __pycache__ directory and *.pyc while packaging into a wheel file using bdist/sdist. If so, the following manifest commands worked for me.

global-exclude */__pycache__/*
global-exclude *.pyc

answered Mar 07 '23 at 22:53

Sreekhar

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '17 at 21:15

I have never had that problem.

Here's an excerpt from my setup.py:

   name='aenum',
   version='2.0.2',
   url='https://bitbucket.org/stoneleaf/aenum',
   packages=['aenum'],
   package_data={
       'aenum' : [
           'LICENSE',
           'README',
           'doc/aenum.rst',
           'doc/aenum.pdf',
           ]
       },
   include_package_data=True,
   license='BSD License',
   description="Advanced Enumerations (compatible with Python's stdlib Enum), NamedTuples, and NamedConstants",
   long_description=long_desc,
   provides=['aenum'],
   author='Ethan Furman',
   author_email='...',
   classifiers=[
        ...
        ],

and my MANIFEST.in:

exclude aenum/*
include setup.py
include README
include aenum/__init__.py
include aenum/test.py
include aenum/test_v3.py
include aenum/LICENSE
include aenum/CHANGES
include aenum/README
include aenum/doc/aenum.pdf
include aenum/doc/aenum.rst

I would say the exclude aenum/* is what does the trick for me, so probably an exclude <package_name>/__pycache__ would work for you.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 15:49

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find_packages from setuptools does that, additionally you may specify direrctories to exclude, like:

packages=find_packages(exclude=['docs', 'tests']),

But compiled artifacts (pyc files and __pycache__ dir) should be excluded automatically.

answered Jun 27 '18 at 15:49

zgoda

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`find_packages(exclude=[])` only filters at the package level – Pablo Arias Aug 22 '18 at 16:11

score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 11 '20 at 20:55

Why would you be doing that? The __pycache__ directory will be generated anyway when a project is run for the first time on the target machine. It's simply an optimised bytecode representation of Python.

But anyway, you can write an script that unpacks the .whl file and does the modifications and then repacks the wheel.

How to exclude *.pyc and __pycache__ from python wheels?

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How to exclude *.pyc and pycache from python wheels?