Other files

The configuration files we showed you in this chapter are all you need to package and distribute most modern Python projects. There are, however, a few other files that you are likely to encounter if you look at other projects on PyPI:

• In early versions of Setuptools, every project needed to include a setup.py script, which was used to build the project. Most such scripts consisted only of a call to the setuptools.setup() function with project metadata specified as parameters. The use of setup.py has not been deprecated and this is still a valid method of configuring Setuptools.
• Setuptools also supports reading its configuration from a setup.cfg file. Before the widespread adoption of pyproject.toml, this was the preferred way of configuring Setuptools.
• If you need to include data files or other non-standard files in your distribution packages, you will need to use a MANIFEST.in file to specify the files to include. You can learn more about the use...