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Closes #867. This provides some links for discovering more about MANIFEST.in and package data.
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Including other files
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The files listed above will be included automatically in your source
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distribution (SDist). If you want to control what goes in the SDist, see
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:ref:`Using MANIFEST.in`.
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The final wheel will have the Python files in the discovered or listed Python
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packages. If you want to control what goes in the wheel, such as to add data
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files, see :std:doc:`Including Data Files <setuptools:userguide/datafiles>`
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from the :std:doc:`setuptools docs <setuptools:index>`.
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.. _generating archives:
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Generating distribution archives

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