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Command Reference
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Installing modules: the **install** command family
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The install command ensures that the build commands have been run and
then runs the subcommands **install_lib**, **install_data** and
**install_scripts**.

**install_data**
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This command installs all data files provided with the distribution.

**install_scripts**
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This command installs all (Python) scripts in the distribution.

Creating a source distribution: the **sdist** command
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The manifest template commands are:

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| Command | Description |
+=============================================+=================================================+
| **include pat1 pat2 ...** | include all files matching any of the listed |
| | patterns |
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| **exclude pat1 pat2 ...** | exclude all files matching any of the listed |
| | patterns |
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| **recursive-include dir pat1 pat2 ...** | include all files under *dir* matching any of |
| | the listed patterns |
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| **recursive-exclude dir pat1 pat2 ...** | exclude all files under *dir* matching any of |
| | the listed patterns |
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| **global-include pat1 pat2 ...** | include all files anywhere in the source tree |
| | matching — & any of the listed patterns |
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| **global-exclude pat1 pat2 ...** | exclude all files anywhere in the source tree |
| | matching — & any of the listed patterns |
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| **prune dir** | exclude all files under *dir* |
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| **graft dir** | include all files under *dir* |
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+

The patterns here are Unix-style “glob” patterns: "*" matches any
sequence of regular filename characters, "?" matches any single
regular filename character, and "[range]" matches any of the
characters in *range* (e.g., "a-z", "a-zA-Z", "a-f0-9_."). The
definition of “regular filename character” is platform-specific: on
Unix it is anything except slash; on Windows anything except backslash
or colon.