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authorChris McDonough <chrism@plope.com>2010-12-19 02:41:16 -0500
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distribution, and installation of libraries and applications.
pkg_resources
- A module which ships with :term:`setuptools` that provides an API
- for addressing "asset files" within Python packages. Asset
- files are static files, template files, etc; basically anything
- non-Python-source that lives in a Python package can be considered
- a asset file. See also `PkgResources
+ A module which ships with :term:`setuptools` that provides an API for
+ addressing "asset files" within a Python :term:`package`. Asset files
+ are static files, template files, etc; basically anything
+ non-Python-source that lives in a Python package can be considered a
+ asset file. See also `PkgResources
<http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources>`_
asset
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ Glossary
A directory on disk which contains an ``__init__.py`` file, making
it recognizable to Python as a location which can be ``import`` -ed.
+ module
+ A Python source file; a file on the filesystem that typically ends with
+ the extension ``.py`` or ``.pyc``. Modules often live in a
+ :term:`package`.
+
project
(Setuptools/distutils terminology). A directory on disk which
contains a ``setup.py`` file and one or more Python packages. The