[TIP] data files for testing

[Andrea Crotti]

On 12/18/2011 11:57 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> Inserting an installation step between Edit and Test in the development
> loop would be Bad.  On the other hand, you only need to run setup.py
> develop once.  And since any nontrivial package probably includes
> library dependencies, you most likely already need to set up a
> virtualenv and run setup.py develop just to install those for
> development.
>
> Marius Gedminas
>
That's also true, is normally not a big issue, but probably __file__ is
a more general way.
And supposing that I use pkg_resources, how do I find my directories?

pkg_resources.resource_filename should be the right call, but what happens
if there are two directories with the same name in the same egg but in
different
subtrees?