Accessing 'Package Data'

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Stefan Arentz wrote:

> 
> At http://docs.python.org/dist/node12.html it is described how to add
> package data to a module. This was pretty easy to do, but now how do I
> access this data from my module? Is there an API to load a 'package
> resource' ala Java's classloader?

You can always use os.path + the __file__-attribute of the containing
package.

And there is the 3rd-party pkg_resources, part of setuptools:

 http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources

Diez