Use ignore parameter for shutil.copytree in setup.py.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 61fb11479..a38e9c723 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -127,14 +127,8 @@ class MyInstallLib(install_lib.install_lib):
                 else:
                     exclude = set()
                 shutil.rmtree(dest, ignore_errors=True)
-                shutil.copytree(directory, dest)
-                # since python2.5's copytree doesn't support the ignore
-                # parameter, the following loop to remove the exclude set
-                # was added
-                for (dirpath, _, filenames) in os.walk(dest):
-                    for n in filenames:
-                        if n in exclude:
-                            os.remove(os.path.join(dirpath, n))
+                shutil.copytree(directory, dest,
+                                ignore=shutil.ignore_patterns(*exclude))
                 if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
                     # process manually python file in include_dirs (test data)
                     # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module