Packaging a single module(file) with a non-code file

[runsun]

I'm trying to package my single-file tool with a README.md file for pip. I've tried couple of ways but failed. Here is one of them.

The file structure is very simple:

pytreelog/
|- README.md
|- pytreelog.py

I suppose the following would have worked (added 3 files: ):

pytreelog/
|- README.md
|- pytreelog.py
|
|- __init__.py
|- setup.py
|- MANIFEST.in

Where:

__init__.py:
name = "pytreelog"

MANIFEST.in:
include README.md

setup.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(name='pytreelog-runsun',
      version='20190405.post6',
      description='Tree-like logging util for python',
      author='runsun',
      author_email= <my email>,
      url= <the url>,
      packages=find_packages(),
      py_modules = ["pytreelog"],
      include_package_data=True, # Need this to include README.md in the pacakge
      classifiers=[
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
       ]
     )

Then I run this:

...pytreelog> python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

The new folder structure (dist/* are displayed):

pytreelog/
|- README.md
|- pytreelog.py
|
|- __init__.py
|- setup.py
|- MANIFEST.in
|
|- build/
|- dist/
| -- pytreelog-runsun-20190405.post6.tar.gz
| -- pytreelog_runsun-20190405.post6-py3-none-any.whl
|- pytreelog_runsun.egg-info/


Then I switch to dist/ and run this:

...pytreelog\dist> pip install pytreelog_runsun-20190405.post6-py3-none-any.whl

The console responded saying it's successfully installed. So now I have my lib in the /site-packages:

C:/python37/Lib/site-packages/
| ...
|- pytreelog_runsun-20190405.post6.dist-info/
|- pytreelog.py

The pytreelog.py is there (as a stand-alone file) but, where is my README.md? How can I get it installed with my lib?

[snippsat]

How can I get it installed with my lib?

If you want to add files when build it,you should build it as package not as a module.
So eg pytreelog should be you package folder,then one level up setup.py,MANIFEST.in,setup.cfg ect...

If look at part of tutorial here a part of this tutorial
So if add a folder in div_pack\doc with README.md,README.rst.
Then in MANIFEST.in:

include div_pack/LICENSE.txt
include div_pack/doc/README.md
include div_pack/doc/README.rst

Then stuff over will be added when built it:

python setup.py bdist_wheel

[runsun]

Thx, that works nicely.