Files contained in sub-module are not copied in the virtualenv

Question

My python module "suricate" has three sample datasets stored as csv in it. They are used for testing and for examples. The file structure is like:
~/Projects/suricate/data/companydata
Inside companydata I have the files:

 __init__.py //which is empty    
 left.csv    
 right.csv    
trainingdata.csv

When I install this module on a virtual env, using pip, I have the following file structure in:

~/anaconda3/envs/myenv/lib/python3.7/sites packages/suricate/data/companydata

Inside companydata I have the file:
__init__.py
The three csv files are missing

What can I do to make sure the virtualenv copies as well the flat csv files?

Expected: Package in Virtual Env folder has the same flat files as in the local folder

Actual Package in Virtual Env folder has all the *.py files but not the *.csv fles

https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bsetuptools%5D+package+data — phd, Jun 26 '19 at 18:59
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bsetuptools%5D+data+files — phd, Jun 26 '19 at 18:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 26 '19 at 18:25

you need modify setup.py and add the packages and file name in it which you require

setup(...,
  packages=['mypkg'],
  package_dir={'mypkg': 'src/mypkg'},
  package_data={'mypkg': ['data/*.csv']},
  )`

something like this. give relative path to csv file in packages, add packages u required

Files contained in sub-module are not copied in the virtualenv

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