10.2 Creating a source distribution: the sdist command

10.2 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 Mac OS 9 anything except colon.

Windows support not there yet

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