5 Creating a Source Distribution

As shown in section 2.1, you use the sdist command to create a source distribution. In the simplest case,

python setup.py sdist

(assuming you haven't specified any sdist options in the setup script or config file), sdist creates the archive of the default format for the current platform. The default formats are:

Platform	Default archive format for source distributions	`Unix`	gzipped tar file (.tar.gz)
`Windows`	zip file

You can specify as many formats as you like using the --formats option, for example:

python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip

to create a gzipped tarball and a zip file. The available formats are:

Format	Description	Notes	`zip`	zip file (.zip)	(1)
`gztar`	gzipped tar file (.tar.gz)	(2)
`ztar`	compressed tar file (.tar.Z)
`tar`	tar file (.tar)

Notes:

(1): default on Windows
(2): default on Unix

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