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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating and using source distributions

With our configuration files all set, we can create a source distribution. This kind of distribution bundles all the relevant files for building our package from source into a tar.gz archive.

To create the source distribution, run setup.py with the sdist option in the project root directory:

python3 setup.py sdist

The following two new directories will appear under the project root:

  • ABQ_Data_Entry.egg-info: This directory contains the metadata files generated by setuptools. If you explore this directory, you'll find that all the information we passed to setup() is here in some form or another.
  • dist: This directory contains any files generated for distribution; in this case, there is just a single ...
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