Distutils/Cookbook

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Introduction

The Distutils Cookbook collects various useful recipes and tips for using the Distutils.

When creating new recipes, use the RecipeTemplate.

Recipes

• /InstallDataScattered – make resource data-files get installed in the same directory tree as the Python files that depend on them

• /AutoDataDiscovery – specify data-files to install with smart_install_data recursively by specifying only a top-level directory

• /AutoPackageDiscovery – specify packages to install recursively by specifying only the top-level package

• /WininstFilename – provide customisation point for altering the filename of bdist_wininst installer (such as to include numpy version information)