Add support for package data.

This is basically the support for package data from Phillip Eby's
setuptools package.  I've changed it only to fit it into the core
implementation rather than to live in subclasses, and added
documentation.

Doc/dist/dist.tex

@@ -652,6 +652,55 @@ setup(...
 \end{verbatim}
 
 
+\subsection{Installing Package Data}
+
+Often, additional files need to be installed into a package.  These
+files are often data that's closely related to the package's
+implementation, or text files containing documentation that might be
+of interest to programmers using the package.  These files are called
+\dfn{package data}.
+
+Package data can be added to packages using the \code{package_data}
+keyword argument to the \function{setup()} function.  The value must
+be a mapping from package name to a list of relative path names that
+should be copied into the package.  The paths are interpreted as
+relative to the directory containing the package (information from the
+\code{package_dir} mapping is used if appropriate); that is, the files
+are expected to be part of the package in the source directories.
+They may contain glob patterns as well.
+
+The path names may contain directory portions; any necessary
+directories will be created in the installation.
+
+For example, if a package should contain a subdirectory with several
+data files, the files can be arranged like this in the source tree:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+setup.py
+src/
+    mypkg/
+        __init__.py
+        module.py
+        data/
+            tables.dat
+            spoons.dat
+            forks.dat
+\end{verbatim}
+
+The corresponding call to \function{setup()} might be:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+setup(...,
+      packages=['mypkg'],
+      package_dir={'mypkg': 'src/mypkg'},
+      package_data={'pypkg': ['data/*.dat']},
+      )
+\end{verbatim}
+
+
+\versionadded{2.4}
+
+
 \subsection{Installing Additional Files}
 
 The \option{data\_files} option can be used to specify additional

Lib/distutils/command/build_py.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ class build_py (Command):
         self.build_lib = None
         self.py_modules = None
         self.package = None
+        self.package_data = None
         self.package_dir = None
         self.compile = 0
         self.optimize = 0
@@ -51,6 +52,8 @@ class build_py (Command):
         # options -- list of packages and list of modules.
         self.packages = self.distribution.packages
         self.py_modules = self.distribution.py_modules
+        self.package_data = self.distribution.package_data
+        self.data_files = self.get_data_files()
         self.package_dir = {}
         if self.distribution.package_dir:
             for name, path in self.distribution.package_dir.items():
@@ -92,11 +95,53 @@ class build_py (Command):
             self.build_modules()
         if self.packages:
             self.build_packages()
+            self.build_package_data()
 
         self.byte_compile(self.get_outputs(include_bytecode=0))
 
     # run ()
 
+    def get_data_files (self):
+        """Generate list of '(package,src_dir,build_dir,filenames)' tuples"""
+        data = []
+        for package in self.packages:
+            # Locate package source directory
+            src_dir = self.get_package_dir(package)
+
+            # Compute package build directory
+            build_dir = os.path.join(*([self.build_lib] + package.split('.')))
+
+            # Length of path to strip from found files
+            plen = len(src_dir)+1
+
+            # Strip directory from globbed filenames
+            filenames = [
+                file[plen:] for file in self.find_data_files(package, src_dir)
+                ]
+            data.append((package, src_dir, build_dir, filenames))
+        return data
+
+    def find_data_files (self, package, src_dir):
+        """Return filenames for package's data files in 'src_dir'"""
+        globs = (self.package_data.get('', [])
+                 + self.package_data.get(package, []))
+        files = []
+        for pattern in globs:
+            # Each pattern has to be converted to a platform-specific path
+            filelist = glob(os.path.join(src_dir, convert_path(pattern)))
+            # Files that match more than one pattern are only added once
+            files.extend([fn for fn in filelist if fn not in files])
+        return files
+
+    def build_package_data (self):
+        """Copy data files into build directory"""
+        lastdir = None
+        for package, src_dir, build_dir, filenames in self.data_files:
+            for filename in filenames:
+                target = os.path.join(build_dir, filename)
+                self.mkpath(os.path.dirname(target))
+                self.copy_file(os.path.join(src_dir, filename), target,
+                               preserve_mode=False)
 
     def get_package_dir (self, package):
         """Return the directory, relative to the top of the source
@@ -304,6 +349,12 @@ class build_py (Command):
                 if self.optimize > 0:
                     outputs.append(filename + "o")
 
+        outputs += [
+            os.path.join(build_dir, filename)
+            for package, src_dir, build_dir, filenames in self.data_files
+            for filename in filenames
+            ]
+
         return outputs
 
 

Lib/distutils/dist.py

@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ class Distribution:
         # than of the Distribution itself.  We provide aliases for them in
         # Distribution as a convenience to the developer.
         self.packages = None
+        self.package_data = {}
         self.package_dir = None
         self.py_modules = None
         self.libraries = None