Kevin, I just posted a small package to the python package index. It has one source file of interest and some unit tests. The remaining files are either needed for or made by distutils. Should be pretty easy to follow if you've read the distutils docs. Note that the package you get does not have the MANIFEST.in file (the tool creates MANIFEST automatically using info from MANIFEST.in).
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pycscope/0.2 share and enjoy, !!Dean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list