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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2014-10-30 21:25:41 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2014-10-30 21:25:41 (GMT)
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Doc: fix default role usage (except in unittest mock docs)
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@@ -286,20 +286,20 @@ Reading the metadata
The :func:`distutils.core.setup` function provides a command-line interface
that allows you to query the metadata fields of a project through the
-`setup.py` script of a given project::
+``setup.py`` script of a given project::
$ python setup.py --name
distribute
-This call reads the `name` metadata by running the
+This call reads the ``name`` metadata by running the
:func:`distutils.core.setup` function. Although, when a source or binary
distribution is created with Distutils, the metadata fields are written
in a static file called :file:`PKG-INFO`. When a Distutils-based project is
installed in Python, the :file:`PKG-INFO` file is copied alongside the modules
and packages of the distribution under :file:`NAME-VERSION-pyX.X.egg-info`,
-where `NAME` is the name of the project, `VERSION` its version as defined
-in the Metadata, and `pyX.X` the major and minor version of Python like
-`2.7` or `3.2`.
+where ``NAME`` is the name of the project, ``VERSION`` its version as defined
+in the Metadata, and ``pyX.X`` the major and minor version of Python like
+``2.7`` or ``3.2``.
You can read back this static file, by using the
:class:`distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata` class and its