| Georg Brandl | 116aa62 | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | :mod:`distutils` --- Building and installing Python modules |
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| 4 | .. module:: distutils |
| Georg Brandl | 71515ca | 2009-05-17 12:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | :synopsis: Support for building and installing Python modules into an |
| 6 | existing Python installation. |
| Georg Brandl | 116aa62 | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | .. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> |
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| 10 | The :mod:`distutils` package provides support for building and installing |
| 11 | additional modules into a Python installation. The new modules may be either |
| 12 | 100%-pure Python, or may be extension modules written in C, or may be |
| 13 | collections of Python packages which include modules coded in both Python and C. |
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| Georg Brandl | 116aa62 | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| Éric Araujo | 55729fe | 2011-06-02 15:45:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | User documentation and API reference are provided in another document: |
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| Georg Brandl | 116aa62 | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | .. seealso:: |
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| 20 | :ref:`distutils-index` |
| Georg Brandl | 71515ca | 2009-05-17 12:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | The manual for developers and packagers of Python modules. This describes |
| 22 | how to prepare :mod:`distutils`\ -based packages so that they may be |
| Éric Araujo | 55729fe | 2011-06-02 15:45:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | easily installed into an existing Python installation. If also contains |
| 24 | instructions for end-users wanting to install a distutils-based package, |
| 25 | :ref:`install-index`. |