[Tutor] Why is there no uninstall option for setup.py?

[Ataulla S H]

its a open source....
u need to delete the installed package  or rename the package....
y have full flexibility....

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:12 AM, wcyee<wcyeee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,  When I am able to find and install a windows package distributed
> as an exe file, I can just go to "Add & Remove Programs" in the
> "Control Panel" and uninstall it.
>
> But if I have to run "python setup.py install", this is not possible.
> I'm trying to understand why uninstall has not been provided.  After
> all, setup.py has been available for many years now, right?
>
> Is this because no one has contributed a patch or code?  Or is there
> something inherent to python and packages that makes this a hard
> problem (on non-windows platforms)?  It seems really odd that there is
> no such thing after such a long time.
>
> Thanks!
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