3.1 Distributing your extension modules
When an extension has been successfully build, there are three ways to use it.
End-users will typically want to install the module, they do so by running
python setup.py install
Module maintainers should produce source packages; to do so, they run
python setup.py sdist
In some cases, additional files need to be included in a source distribution; this is done through a MANIFEST.in file; see the distutils documentation for details.
If the source distribution has been build successfully, maintainers can also create binary distributions. Depending on the platform, one of the following commands can be used to do so.
python setup.py bdist_wininst python setup.py bdist_rpm python setup.py bdist_dumb
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Release 2.4.4c1, documentation updated on 11 October 2006.