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Why you shouldn't invoke setup.py directly (via) Paul Ganssle explains why you shouldn’t use “python setup.py command” any more. I’ve mostly switched to pip and pytest and twine but I was still using “python setup.py sdist”—apparently the new replacement recipe for that is “python -m build”.

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