Added 'findPackages()' function to automatically list packages for setup.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.eby-sarna.com/svnroot/wsgiref@237 571e12c6-e1fa-0310-aee7-ff1267fa46bd

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/__init__.py b/setuptools/__init__.py
index 172c77d..6fb8511 100644
--- a/setuptools/__init__.py
+++ b/setuptools/__init__.py
@@ -4,14 +4,31 @@ import distutils.core, setuptools.command
 from setuptools.dist import Distribution, Feature
 from setuptools.extension import Extension
 from distutils.core import Command
+import os.path
 
 __all__ = [
-    'setup', 'Distribution', 'Feature', 'Command', 'Extension'
+    'setup', 'Distribution', 'Feature', 'Command', 'Extension', 'findPackages'
 ]
 
 
-def setup(**attrs):
+def findPackages(where='.', prefix='', append=None):
+    """List all Python packages found within directory 'where'"""
+
+    out = []
+    if not append:
+        append = out.append
+
+    for name in os.listdir(where):
+        fn = os.path.join(where,name)
+        if (os.path.isdir(fn) and
+            os.path.isfile(os.path.join(fn,'__init__.py'))
+        ):
+            append(prefix+name)
+            findPackages(fn,prefix+name+'.',append)
+    return out
 
+
+def setup(**attrs):
     """Do package setup
 
     This function takes the same arguments as 'distutils.core.setup()', except
@@ -19,7 +36,6 @@ def setup(**attrs):
     that class' documentation for details on the new keyword arguments that it
     makes available via this function.
     """
-
     attrs.setdefault("distclass",Distribution)
     return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)