Extend page on including data in your package

OpenAstronomy / packaging-guide

A generic Python packaging guide and template. Slightly focused more towards scientific packages.

https://packaging-guide.openastronomy.org

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Extend page on including data in your package #7

Open namurphy opened 4 years ago

namurphy commented 4 years ago

The page on how to include data in a package still needs to be written. Just to brainstorm, some of the topics could be:

where to put data files
accessing files (probably using pkg_resources?)
dealing with large data files with git-lfs (and any good alternatives to git-lfs)

I'm also curious if there's a way to store data files on, say, the Zenodo online archive so that they can be downloaded during package setup or installation.

Cadair commented 6 months ago

This has also recently been written if you have any feedback.

Cadair commented 6 months ago

I think it would be good to at least cover accessing data from within your code.