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2.6 Installing Additional Files</A>
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The <span class="du-option">data_files</span> option can be used to specify additional
files needed by the module distribution: configuration files, message
catalogs, data files, anything which doesn't fit in the previous
categories.
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<span class="du-option">data_files</span> specifies a sequence of (<var>directory</var>,
<var>files</var>) pairs in the following way:
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setup(...
data_files=[('bitmaps', ['bm/b1.gif', 'bm/b2.gif']),
('config', ['cfg/data.cfg']),
('/etc/init.d', ['init-script'])]
)
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Note that you can specify the directory names where the data files
will be installed, but you cannot rename the data files themselves.
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Each (<var>directory</var>, <var>files</var>) pair in the sequence specifies the
installation directory and the files to install there. If
<var>directory</var> is a relative path, it is interpreted relative to the
installation prefix (Python's <code>sys.prefix</code> for pure-Python
packages, <code>sys.exec_prefix</code> for packages that contain extension
modules). Each file name in <var>files</var> is interpreted relative to
the <span class="file">setup.py</span> script at the top of the package source
distribution. No directory information from <var>files</var> is used to
determine the final location of the installed file; only the name of
the file is used.
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You can specify the <span class="du-option">data_files</span> options as a simple sequence
of files without specifying a target directory, but this is not recommended,
and the <code class="du-command">install</code> command will print a warning in this case.
To install data files directly in the target directory, an empty
string should be given as the directory.
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