Distributing Python Modules

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• 7.1 Installing modules: the install command family
  • 7.1.1 install_data
  • 7.1.2 install_scripts
• 7.2 Creating a source distribution: the sdist command

 
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7.1 Installing modules: the install command family

The install command ensures that the build commands have been run and then runs the subcommands install_lib, install_data and install_scripts.

 
7.1.1 install_data

 
7.1.2 install_scripts

 
7.2 Creating a source distribution: the sdist command

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The manifest template commands are:

Command	Description
include pat1 pat2 ...	include all files matching any of the listed patterns
exclude pat1 pat2 ...	exclude all files matching any of the listed patterns
recursive-include dir pat1 pat2 ...	include all files under dir matching any of the listed patterns
recursive-exclude dir pat1 pat2 ...	exclude all files under dir matching any of the listed patterns
global-include pat1 pat2 ...	include all files anywhere in the source tree matching & any of the listed patterns
global-exclude pat1 pat2 ...	exclude all files anywhere in the source tree matching & any of the listed patterns
prune dir	exclude all files under dir
graft dir	include all files under dir

The patterns here are Unix-style ``glob'' patterns: * matches any sequence of regular filename characters, ? matches any single regular filename character, and [range] matches any of the characters in range (e.g., a-z, a-zA-Z, a-f0-9_.). The definition of ``regular filename character'' is platform-specific: on Unix it is anything except slash; on Windows anything except backslash or colon; on MacOS anything except colon.

** Windows and MacOS support not there yet **

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Distributing Python Modules

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