How does setup.py work?

[Robert Kern]

Matias Surdi wrote:

> Here you can read the documentation of "setuptools" , the package from 
> where setup.py comes.
> 
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

No, setup.py files are standard distutils. setuptools is a 3rd-party package
that extends distutils.

  http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html

-- 
Robert Kern

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 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
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