Welcome to Setuptools’ documentation!¶
Setuptools is a fully-featured, actively-maintained, and stable library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects, where packaging includes:
- Python package and module definitions
- Distribution package metadata
- Test hooks
- Project installation
- Platform-specific details
- Python 3 support
Documentation content:
- Building and Distributing Packages with Setuptools
- Easy Install
- Package Discovery and Resource Access using
pkg_resources
- Supporting both Python 2 and Python 3 with Setuptools
- Development on Setuptools
- Roadmap
- History
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