About packaging bash files into PyPI

[Zengyf-CVer]

I have a bash file (*.sh) in my project and there is a python file that needs to call this .sh file. When I packaged it with setuptools, I found that the .sh file was not packaged, only the .py file was packaged. How should I pack the .sh file into it?

[abravalheri]

Hi @Zengyf-CVer, have you tried the "data-files" approach?

Personally, I would place the bash files inside the package directory, use setuptools-scm to make sure all files in the git repository are added to the sdist, set include_package_data=True, and finally use importlib.resources (or importlib_resources) to load the file in runtime.