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Expand Up @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ This page discusses the file formats that are used to distribute Python packages
and the differences between them.

You will find files in two formats on package indices such as PyPI_: **source
distributions**, or **sdists** for short, and **binary distributions**, commonly
distributions**, or **sdists** for short, and **built distributions**, commonly
called **wheels**. For example, the `PyPI page for pip 23.3.1 <pip-pypi_>`_
lets you download two files, ``pip-23.3.1.tar.gz`` and
``pip-23.3.1-py3-none-any.whl``. The former is an sdist, the latter is a
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