Index: basemap-1.0.2/setup.py
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--- basemap-1.0.2.orig/setup.py	2011-11-05 18:02:58.000000000 +0100
+++ basemap-1.0.2/setup.py	2011-11-13 22:05:27.571909960 +0100
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 # create pyproj binary datum shift grid files.
 pathout =\
 os.path.join('lib',os.path.join('mpl_toolkits',os.path.join('basemap','data')))
-if sys.argv[1] != ['sdist','clean']:
+if sys.argv[1] not in ['sdist','clean']:
     cc = ccompiler.new_compiler()
     sysconfig.customize_compiler(cc)
     cc.set_include_dirs(['src'])
