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ActivePython 2.5

Python Documentation

Distributing Python Modules

2. Writing the Setup Script

2.1 Listing whole packages

2.2 Listing individual modules

2.3 Describing extension modules

2.4 Relationships between Distributions and Packages

2.5 Installing Scripts

2.6 Installing Package Data

2.7 Installing Additional Files

2.8 Additional meta-data

2.9 Debugging the setup script

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2.2 Listing individual modules

For a small module distribution, you might prefer to list all modules rather than listing packages--especially the case of a single module that goes in the ``root package'' (i.e., no package at all). This simplest case was shown in section 1.2; here is a slightly more involved example:

py_modules = ['mod1', 'pkg.mod2']

This describes two modules, one of them in the ``root'' package, the other in the pkg package. Again, the default package/directory layout implies that these two modules can be found in mod1.py and pkg/mod2.py, and that pkg/__init__.py exists as well. And again, you can override the package/directory correspondence using the package_dir option.

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