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+import distutils.core
+
+distutils.core.setup(
+    name = "txMsgpack",
+    version = "1.0",
+    packages = ["txmsgpack"],
+    package_dir = {"": "lib/python"},
+    author = "Donal McMullan",
+    author_email = "donal.mcmullan@gmail.com",
+    url = "https://github.com/donalm/txMsgpack",
+    license = "MIT",
+    description = "txMsgpack is a Twisted Protocol to support msgpack-rpc.",
+)