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authorJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2014-03-16 05:39:05 -0400
committerJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2014-03-16 05:39:05 -0400
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Update documentation to reflect PEP420 support
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diff --git a/docs/setuptools.txt b/docs/setuptools.txt
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@@ -426,9 +426,9 @@ such projects also need something like ``package_dir = {'':'src'}`` in their
``setup()`` arguments, but that's just a normal distutils thing.)
Anyway, ``find_packages()`` walks the target directory, filtering by inclusion
-patterns, and finds Python
-packages by looking for ``__init__.py`` files. It then filters the list of
-packages using the exclusion patterns.
+patterns, and finds Python packages (any directory). On Python 3.2 and
+earlier, packages are only recognized if they include an ``__init__.py`` file.
+Finally, exclusion patterns are applied to remove matching packages.
Inclusion and exclusion patterns are package names, optionally including
wildcards. For