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package_data not doing recursive glob calls

See original GitHub issue

Even though glob supports it, glob support for recursive ** searching is not enabled when specifying package_data. This is not clear in the documentation.

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/a94ccbf404a79d56f9b171024dee361de9a948da/setuptools/command/build_py.py#L106

This means that only single * searches in a specific directory are supported. By changing the glob function to support recursive, this would allow us to specify ** patterns to a directory instead of having to specify every sub-directory in the structure.

Reference: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/glob.py#L18

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:22
Comments:13 (4 by maintainers)

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JaapJoriscommented, Nov 20, 2019

Agreed, it would be massively helpful if I could use the ** glob in setup.py’s package_data. I deploy Django apps which include many templates in potentially endless subdirectories. There is no glob pattern except **/*.html to describe their paths.

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thenewguycommented, May 30, 2020

I just found this issue working with Django templates as well. Recursive glob support would be tremendously helpful when packaging Django apps that include templates

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