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Distributing Your Application
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Once your application works properly, you can create a "tarball" from it by
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using the ``setup.py sdist`` command. The following commands assume your
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current working directory contains the ``tutorial`` package and the
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``setup.py`` file.
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On UNIX:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ $VENV/bin/python setup.py sdist
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On Windows:
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.. code-block:: doscon
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c:\tutorial> %VENV%\Scripts\python setup.py sdist
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The output of such a command will be something like:
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.. code-block:: text
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running sdist
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# more output
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creating dist
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Creating tar archive
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removing 'tutorial-0.0' (and everything under it)
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Note that this command creates a tarball in the "dist" subdirectory named
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``tutorial-0.0.tar.gz``. You can send this file to your friends to show them
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your cool new application. They should be able to install it by pointing the
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``pip install`` command directly at it. Or you can upload it to `PyPI
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<https://pypi.org/>`_ and share it with the rest of the world, where
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it can be downloaded via ``pip install`` remotely like any other package people
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download from PyPI.
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