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:

• History
  • CHANGES
• Roadmap
• Supporting both Python 2 and Python 3 with Setuptools
  • Using 2to3
  • Distributing Python 3 modules
  • Advanced features
• Building and Distributing Packages with Setuptools
  • Developer’s Guide
  • Command Reference
  • Extending and Reusing Setuptools
• Easy Install
  • Using “Easy Install”
  • Reference Manual
  • History
  • Future Plans
• Package Discovery and Resource Access using pkg_resources
  • Overview
  • API Reference
• Development on Setuptools
  • Developer’s Guide for Setuptools
  • The Internal Structure of Python Eggs
  • Release Process