February 03, 2006 08:52 AM Philippe Normand urn:md5:11329 Alinea Phil http://base-art.net/Comments/184/ February 03, 2006 08:52 AM <p>Thanks for the tip Phillip ! The code looks better using this ;) I'll continue to play with setuptools, it's really helpful and a great step for Python packages distribution :)</p> Phillip J. Eby http://base-art.net/Comments/183/ February 02, 2006 10:15 PM <p>Quick tip: if you use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">entrypoint.module_name</span></tt> as the first argument to the various <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">resource_foo()</span></tt> APIs, your code won't be dependent on the plugin class' name being the same as the plugin egg's project name, and you won't have to mess around with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Requirement.parse()</span></tt> for the use cases shown. Instead, it will always look for resources relative to the package containing the plugin:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> for entrypoint in pkg_resources.iter_entry_points(&quot;my.plugins&quot;): plugin_class = entrypoint.load() print 'Plugin %s: %s' % (repr(entrypoint.name), repr(plugin_class)) tmpl = 'data/foobar.tmpl' data_contents = pkg_resources.resource_listdir(entrypoint.module_name, 'data') print 'data contents : %s' % repr(data_contents) # let's find and read a data file in our plugin if pkg_resources.resource_exists(entrypoint.module_name, tmpl): foo_bar = pkg_resources.resource_string(entrypoint.module_name, tmpl) # contents of foobar.tmpl as a string print 'tmpl contents : %s' % repr(foo_bar) else: print '%s not found :-(' % repr(tmpl) </pre> <p>Also, instead of bundling data with packages, you can bundle it in the egg-info directories and get access to it with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">entrypoint.dist.get_metadata()</span></tt> and the like. But that might be out of scope for this tutorial.</p> <p>Nice series, by the way, keep up the good work!</p>