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authorÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2011-06-09 14:28:19 (GMT)
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for an example)
To create a source distribution for this module, you would create a setup
-script, :file:`setup.py`, containing the above code, and run::
+script, :file:`setup.py`, containing the above code, and run this command from a
+terminal::
python setup.py sdist
-which will create an archive file (e.g., tarball on Unix, ZIP file on Windows)
+For Windows, open a command prompt windows ("DOS box") and change the command
+to::
+
+ setup.py sdist
+
+:command:`sdist` will create an archive file (e.g., tarball on Unix, ZIP file on Windows)
containing your setup script :file:`setup.py`, and your module :file:`foo.py`.
The archive file will be named :file:`foo-1.0.tar.gz` (or :file:`.zip`), and
will unpack into a directory :file:`foo-1.0`.