创建清单。在项目根用递归include到所需目录或用文件名include。

include LICENSE
include README.rst
recursive-include package/static *
recursive-include package/templates *

文档可以在这里找到

现在是2019年，以下是行之有效的方法 尽管这里和那里的建议，我在互联网上发现的是使用setuptools_scm，作为选项传递给setuptools.setup。这将包括VCS中版本化的任何数据文件，无论是git还是其他任何文件，到wheel包中，并将从git存储库中进行“pip install”以将这些文件带进来。

因此，我只是在“setup.py”的设置调用中添加了这两行。无需额外安装或导入:

    setup_requires=['setuptools_scm'],
    include_package_data=True,

No need to manually list package_data, or in a MANIFEST.in file - if it is versioned, it is included in the package. The docs on "setuptools_scm" put emphasis on creating a version number from the commit position, and disregard the really important part of adding the data files. (I can't care less if my intermediate wheel file is named "*0.2.2.dev45+g3495a1f" or will use the hardcoded version number "0.3.0dev0" I've typed in - but leaving crucial files for the program to work behind is somewhat important)

在setup.py下的setup(:

setup(
   name = 'foo library'
   ...
  package_data={
   'foolibrary.folderA': ['*'],     # All files from folder A
   'foolibrary.folderB': ['*.txt']  #All text files from folder B
   },

这里有一个对我有用的更简单的答案。

首先，根据上面Python Dev的注释，setuptools是不需要的:

package_data is also available to pure distutils setup scripts 
since 2.3. – Éric Araujo

这很好，因为在包中添加setuptools要求意味着您也必须安装它。简而言之:

from distutils.core import setup

setup(
    # ...snip...
    packages          = ['pkgname'],
    package_data      = {'pkgname': ['license.txt']},
)

我想对其中一个问题发表评论，但我没有足够的声誉来做>.>

以下是对我有效的方法(参考文档后想到的):

package_data={
    'mypkg': ['../*.txt']
},

include_package_data: False

奇怪的是，最后一行对我来说也很重要(你也可以省略这个关键字参数——它的工作原理是一样的)。

它的作用是复制顶级目录或根目录中的所有文本文件(比您想分发的包mypkg高一级)。

以上这些方法对我都不起作用。是这个回答救了我。 显然，为了在安装期间提取这些数据文件，我必须做几件事:

Like already mentioned - Add a MANIFEST.in to the project and specify the folder/files you want to be included. In my case: recursive-include folder_with_extra_stuff * Again, like already mentioned - Add include_package_data=True to your setup.py. This is crucial, because without it only the files that match *.py will be brought. This is what was missing! - Add an empty __init__.py to your data folder. For me I had to add this file to my folder-with-extra-stuff. Extra - Not sure if this is a requirement, but with my own python modules I saw that they're zipped inside the .egg file in site-packages. So I had to add zip_safe=False to my setup.py file.

最终目录结构

my-app/
├─ app/
│  ├─ __init__.py
│  ├─ __main__.py
├─ folder-with-extra-stuff/
│  ├─ __init__.py
│  ├─ data_file.json
├─ setup.py
├─ MANIFEST.in