How do you add additional files to a wheel?

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Have you tried using package_data in your setup.py? MANIFEST.in seems targetted for python versions <= 2.6, I’m not sure if higher versions even look at it.

After exploring https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject, their MANIFEST.in says:

# If using Python 2.6 or less, then have to include package data, even though
# it's already declared in setup.py
include sample/*.dat

which seems to imply this method is outdated. Meanwhile, in setup.py they declare:

setup(
    name="sample",
    ...
    # If there are data files included in your packages that need to be
    # installed, specify them here.  If using Python 2.6 or less, then these
    # have to be included in MANIFEST.in as well.
    include_package_data=True,
    package_data={
        'sample': ['package_data.dat'],
    },
    ...
)

(I’m not sure why they chose a wildcard in MANIFEST.in and a filename in setup.py. They refer to the same file)

Which, along with being simpler, again seems to imply that the package_data route is superior to the MANIFEST.in method. Well, unless you have to support 2.6 that is, in which case my prayers go out to you.

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