setuptools - include json file in python package pypi

Question

I have a file tree (look below) and my Python file api.py uses data from data/data.json. But I want to make sure that once I upload my package to PyPi it also includes the data directory, because if not the program just not gonna work at all.

- api
   __init__.py
   api.py
- data
    data.json
setup.py
README.md
requirements.txt
LICENSE
.gitignore

setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

with open('README.md', 'r') as f:
    long_description = f.read()
    
setup(
    name='api',
    version='1.0',
    author='name',
    author_email='email',
    description='api',
    long_description=long_description,
    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
    url='link',
    packages=find_packages(),
    package_data={'api': ['../data/data.json']},
    include_package_data=True,
    install_requires=[
        'requests',
        'beautifulsoup4',
        'numpy',
      ]
)

How can I upload and include the data.json file?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65841378/include-json-file-in-python-package-pypi

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