[Distutils] setup.py sdist not including my README.md

[Vladimir Diaz]

Have you tried adding the line "include README.md" to MANIFEST.in?  That
should do the trick.


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Joshua Richardson <jricjr3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry for the Noob question, but I've been banging my head on this all
> afternoon.
>
> Following some tutorial I found somewhere on PyPI, I created a setup.py
> which included a line like this:
>
> # Get the long description from the relevant file
>
> with open(path.join(here, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
>
>     long_description = f.read()
>
>
> and then in the setup() function, I pass
>
>
> long_description=long_description
>
>
> Somehow this worked, when I installed the package on my development box
> (Mac with setuptools 5.1), so I prematurely published it to PyPI.
>  Unfortunately, when I tried installing it to a fresh CentOS box
> (setuptools 0.6c5-2.el5), I got this error:
>
>
> Downloading/unpacking Dumper
>
>   Downloading Dumper-1.0.1.tar.gz
>
>   Running setup.py egg_info for package Dumper
>
> .... <stacktrace omitted, let me know if you need it>
>
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/tmp/pip-build/Dumper/README.md'
>
> So, I checked the tarball and saw that README.md is not in there.  I read
> the setuptools developer guide, and decided maybe I should try:
>
>     include_package_data=True,
>
> I re-ran "setup.py sdist" and checked the tarball, and the README.md is
> still not in there.  Ok, maybe because my source-control is git.  So, I
> added a MANIFEST.in, containing one line: "README.md".  Still no luck.  So,
> I added:
>
>     package_data={
>
>         '': ['README.md'],
>
>     },
>
>
> Still a no-go.  Now I'm feeling stupid.  SOS.
>
>
> Thanks for reading this far!   --josh
>
>
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