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Add sidebar about built files in Python data
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packages and ``file.not`` in none of them.
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.. sidebar:: ``file.bin`` and built files
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Files such as ``file.bin`` are not in the original source code of the
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project (i.e. not in the `git` source code repository for example) but
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should still be installed. Typically these files are created during a build
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step such as ``./setup.py build`` for example (think ``gettext`` ``*.mo``
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messages catalogs).
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The gist of it is:
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* first and foremost, always thoroughly clean up the working directory between

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