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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+"""Stupid little script to automate generation of MANIFEST and po/POTFILES.in
+
+Really this should have been handled by using distutils, but oh well,
+distutils is a hoary beast and I can't fault people for not wanting to 
+spend days spelunking around inside it to find the solutions...
+"""
+from distutils.filelist import FileList
+import os
+
+def fileList( template ):
+    """Produce a formatted file-list for storing in a file"""
+    files = FileList()
+    for line in filter(None,template.splitlines()):
+        files.process_template_line( line )
+    content = '\n'.join( files.files )
+    return content
+
+
+def main( ):
+    """Do the quicky finding of files for our manifests"""
+    content = fileList( open('MANIFEST.in').read() )
+    open( 'MANIFEST','w').write( content )
+    
+    content = fileList( open('POTFILES.in').read() )
+    try:
+        os.makedirs( 'po' )
+    except OSError, err:
+        pass
+    open( os.path.join('po','POTFILES.in'), 'w').write( content )
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()