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+from setuptools import setup, Feature, Extension
+
+
+setup(
+    name='MarkupSafe',
+    version='0.9',
+    url='http://dev.pocoo.org/',
+    license='BSD',
+    author='Armin Ronacher',
+    author_email='armin.ronacher@active-4.com',
+    description='Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python',
+    long_description=__doc__,
+    zip_safe=False,
+    classifiers=[
+        'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
+        'Environment :: Web Environment',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
+        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+        'Programming Language :: Python',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+        'Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+        'Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML'
+    ],
+    packages=['markupsafe'],
+    include_package_data=True,
+    features={
+        'speedups': Feature("optional C speed-enhancements",
+            standard=False,
+            ext_modules=[
+                Extension('markupsafe._speedups', ['markupsafe/_speedups.c'])
+            ]
+        )
+    }
+)