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John Go-Soco
John Go-Soco

Reputation: 955

Specify setuptools sdist source distribution to only create folder

I know that in setuptools, if I want to specify the creation of a source distribution I would simply have to run:

setup.py sdist

Using the formats flag, I can specify the output distribution format (for example, zip and/or tar - see https://docs.python.org/3.5/distutils/sourcedist.html).

However, I was wondering if there's a way to create the source distribution without a format - ie, just leave them in the unzipped folder.

I could not find anything in the docs or anywhere obvious in the source code (https://github.com/pypa/setuptools).

Is this possible? Or, will I have to just unzip the output archive afterwards?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 169

Answers (1)

sinoroc
sinoroc

Reputation: 22295

You could use the --keep-temp option:

  --keep-temp (-k)  keep the distribution tree around after creating archive
                    file(s)

Upvotes: 1

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