[Python-Dev] PEP 427: data directory

[Daniel Holth]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The FAQ has this weird statement:
>>
>> “This specification does not have an opinion on how you should organize
>> your code. The .data directory is just a place for any files that are
>> not normally installed inside site-packages or on the PYTHONPATH.”

I mean to say that just because there is a .data/ directory it doesn't
mean you have to stop using pkgutil.get_data(package, resource). Some
people will take those 4 letters "data" to mean that any file that
doesn't start with .py has to go there instead of in the root of the
archive.