I have a very simple setup:
from distutils.core import setup
setup(name='myscripts',
description='my scripts',
author='Ago',
author_email='blah',
version='0.1',
packages=['myscripts']
)
myscripts folder consists of about 10 python files. Everthing works fine if I just execute my main.py file (executable, which uses those myscripts files). Now I try to do:
python setup.py sdist
But I get:
running sdist
warning: sdist: missing required meta-data: url
reading manifest file 'MANIFEST'
creating myscripts-0.1
making hard links in myscripts-0.1...
'file1.py' not a regular file -- skipping
hard linking setup.py -> myscripts-0.1
'file2.py' not a regular file -- skipping
tar -cf dist/myscripts-0.1.tar myscripts-0.1
gzip -f9 dist/myscripts-0.1.tar
removing 'myscripts-0.1' (and everything under it)
Files file1.py and file2.py are as regular as other files. Any suggestions?
(Already worked, reposting as a proper answer):
Try removing the "MANIFEST" file and re-running it. If you've moved files around, MANIFEST can be wrong (it gets regenerated automatically if it's not there).
NOTE: I am new to setup.py, sdist, etc. and am working through exercise 46 in "learn python the hard way"-> So I don't yet know what I'm doing :) http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
I found this question because I was receiving the same error when trying to include a script. For whatever reason I don't have a "manifest" file (that I can find)--perhaps I'm using a different distutils version? I used pip to install "distribute".
The solution for me was to include the extension "*.py" with the script name. As:
...
'scripts': ['bin/testscript.py'],
...
While following http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-scripts it seemed like I shouldn't include the extension. So, I'm not sure what's up here, but it works for me as of now and the "not a regular file -- skipped" error went away.
This solved my problem. You can find my newbie code at: https://github.com/stevekochscience/Test-python-package-with-script-LPTHW-EX46
The README file explains what I did to test the package along with test script. Hope this helps other newbies who stumble across this question!
In my case this error was caused by inadvertly running distutils with Python 2.7 instead of Python 3. The quick fix:
python3 setup.py register sdist upload
Better still, mark the script correctly:
sed -i '1i #!/usr/bin/python3' setup.py
