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exclude_package_data directive not processed #2269
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i have in setup.py these sources to exclude
...
exclude_package_data={
'people_counter': ['people_counter.py'],
'people_analysis': ['people_analysis_windows9_opt.py'],
'anomaly_detect': ['frame_analyzer.py'],
'face_predict': ['detect_face.py', 'predict.py'],
}
)
when i check
unzip -l dist/my_package_wheel.whl
i can find inside my sources .py
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0 2020-07-20 10:46 people_counter/__init__.py
16126 2020-07-16 08:59 people_counter/people_counter.py
...
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McSinyx commentedon Jul 21, 2020
Hi, IIUC, package data refer to non-Python files. I'm not aware of a way to exclude a module inside a package (there might be though, since my experience is limited), but I think you can work-around this by naming the extension of the files. It seems that they are executable, so if you're on an Unix-like OS, removing
.pyentirely might be a good idea too.A more canonical way might be to move all those executable out to a directory that you can exclude (or not include) and use absolute imports within their code.
abravalheri commentedon Jan 5, 2022
Hi @antoniosap, the answer provided by @McSinyx explains what is happening and provides a nice workaround... I will close the issue for the time being, since the behaviour that you are facing is expected.
I haven't experimented a lot with that, but I suppose you could also try to use a
MANIFEST.infile to control which files get included in the distribution... but that is much more cumbersome that the approach suggested by @McSinyx.