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authorDylan Wilson <dylanjw@protonmail.com>2018-01-23 15:11:14 -0800
committerDylan Wilson <dylanjw@protonmail.com>2018-01-23 15:11:14 -0800
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Reflect find_packages behavior in doc
find_packages doesnt find PEP420 packages but the documentation suggests that it does. see: pypa/setuptools#97
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diff --git a/docs/setuptools.txt b/docs/setuptools.txt
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@@ -437,9 +437,9 @@ 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 (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.
+patterns, and finds Python packages (any directory). 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