distutils and building an distribution that includes other packages

[Paul Hemans]

Hi,
I am new to Python, and after a lot of sweat and tears, I have my first app. 
Now I need to deploy it to end-users. The application includes the use of 
lxml and sqlAlchemy so I need those to install automatically as part of the 
installation process. I really don't want the users having to download 
various modules and install them. Is this facility (to download and install 
other packages seamlessly) part of distutils? If so, I have been looking 
around for a simple tutorial on the topic but haven't found anything yet. 
Can anyone point me to some information?

Thanks