libcloud.utils.dist : API documentation

Function	relative_to	Gets 'relativee' relative to 'basepath'.
Function	get_packages	Get all packages which are under dname. This is necessary for Python 2.2's distutils. Pretty similar arguments to getDataFiles, including 'parent'.
Function	get_data_files	Get all the data files that should be included in this distutils Project.
Function	_filter_names	Given a list of file names, return those names that should be copied.

def _filter_names(names): (source)

Given a list of file names, return those names that should be copied.

def relative_to(base, relativee): (source)

Gets 'relativee' relative to 'basepath'.

i.e.,

>>> relative_to('/home/', '/home/radix/')
'radix'
>>> relative_to('.', '/home/radix/Projects/Twisted') # curdir is /home/radix
'Projects/Twisted'

The 'relativee' must be a child of 'basepath'.

def get_packages(dname, pkgname=None, results=None, ignore=None, parent=None): (source)

Get all packages which are under dname. This is necessary for Python 2.2's distutils. Pretty similar arguments to getDataFiles, including 'parent'.

def get_data_files(dname, ignore=None, parent=None): (source)

Get all the data files that should be included in this distutils Project.

'dname' should be the path to the package that you're distributing.

'ignore' is a list of sub-packages to ignore. This facilitates disparate package hierarchies. That's a fancy way of saying that the 'twisted' package doesn't want to include the 'twisted.conch' package, so it will pass ['conch'] as the value.

'parent' is necessary if you're distributing a subpackage like twisted.conch. 'dname' should point to 'twisted/conch' and 'parent' should point to 'twisted'. This ensures that your data_files are generated correctly, only using relative paths for the first element of the tuple ('twisted/conch/*'). The default 'parent' is the current working directory.

l.u.dist : module documentation