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Specifying Additional Files With A Manifest

Understand how to include non-Python files such as licenses and documentation in your Python library packages by creating a MANIFEST.in file. Learn commands to specify files and directories that Distutils does not include by default, maintaining project structure during packaging.

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By default, Distutils will include the following files in your release package:

  • README.txt
  • setup.py
  • The .py files needed by the multi-file modules listed in the packages parameter
  • The individual .py files listed in the py_modules parameter

That will cover all the files in the httplib2 project. But for the chardet project, we also want to include the COPYING.txt license file and ...