tests folder in tarball, pypi

[idella]

Is there any reason the tests folder therefore the testsuite never made it into the tarball staged at pypi?
The source has no MANIFEST.in

[amol-]

I'm not sure I understood the question, but tests are removed because they are ignored by find_packages in setup.py:

  packages=find_packages(exclude=['ez_setup', 'examples', 'tests', 'tests.*']),

As you can see they are correctly omitted from the source distribution:

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