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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vi:si:et:sw=4:sts=4:ts=4
+# encoding: utf-8
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+setup(
+    name="ebml",
+    version="0.1",
+    description="python-ebml",
+    author="Joseph Spiros",
+    url="https://github.com/jspiros/python-ebml",
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    include_package_data=True,
+    package_data = { '': [ '*.xml' ] },
+    classifiers = [
+        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+        'Programming Language :: Python',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+    ],
+)
+