Build tool for Python

[Terry Reedy]

Hussein B wrote:
> Hi.
> Apache Ant is the de facto building tool for Java (whether JSE, JEE
> and JME) application.
> With Ant you can do what ever you want: compile, generate docs,
> generate code, packing, deploy, connecting to remote servers and every
> thing.
> Do we have such a tool for Python projects?

Also see thread Continuous integration for Python projects and mention 
of buildbot.