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Distutils is the standard packaging system for Python modules and applications.

Distutils is the standard packaging system for Python modules and applications.

It has many high and low level features used to build, distribute and install Python projects. The official documentation page provides a good overview of its capabilities.

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Differences between distribute, distutils, setuptools and distutils2?

The Situation I’m trying to port an open-source library to Python 3. (SymPy, if anyone is wondering.) So, I need to run 2to3 automatically when building for Python 3. To do that, I need to use distribute. Therefore, I need to port the current…
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Including non-Python files with setup.py

How do I make setup.py include a file that isn't part of the code? (Specifically, it's a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of…
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setuptools vs. distutils: why is distutils still a thing?

Python has a confusing history of tools that can be used to package and describe projects: these include distutils in the Standard Library, distribute, distutils2, and setuptools (and maybe more). It appears that distribute and distutils2 were…
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How to include package data with setuptools/distutils?

When using setuptools, I can not get the installer to pull in any package_data files. Everything I've read says that the following is the correct way to do it. Can someone please advise? setup( name='myapp', packages=find_packages(), …
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How can I make setuptools install a package that's not on PyPI?

I've just started working with setuptools and virtualenv. My package requires the latest python-gearman that is only available from GitHub. The python-gearman version that's on PyPI is an old one. The Github source is setuptools-compatible, i.e. has…
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DistutilsOptionError: must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both

I've been usually installed python packages through pip. For Google App Engine, I need to install packages to another target directory. I've tried: pip install -I flask-restful --target ./lib but it fails with: must supply either home or…
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pypi UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires'

Does anybody encounter this warning when executing python setup.py install of a PyPI package? install_requires defines what the package requires. A lot of PyPI packages have this option. How can it be an "unknown distribution option"?
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pip cannot uninstall : "It is a distutils installed project"

I tried to install the Twilio module: sudo -H pip install twilio And I got this error: Installing collected packages: pyOpenSSL Found existing installation: pyOpenSSL 0.13.1 Cannot uninstall 'pyOpenSSL'. It is a distutils installed project and …
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how to install python distutils

I just got some space on a VPS server(running on ubuntu 8.04), and I'm trying to install django on it. The server has python 2.5 installed, but I guess its non standard installation. When I run install script for django, I…
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Combine --user with --prefix error with setup.py install

I was trying to install Python packages a system I recently gained access to. I was trying to take advantage of Python's relatively new per user site-packages directory, and the new option --user. (The option is currently undocumented, however it…
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Compiling with cython and mingw produces gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin'

I'm trying to compile a python extension with cython in win 7 64-bit using mingw (64-bit). I'm working with Python 2.6 (Active Python 2.6.6) and with the adequate distutils.cfg file (setting mingw as the compiler) When executing >…
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How to copy directory recursively in python and overwrite all?

I'm trying to copy /home/myUser/dir1/ and all its contents (and their contents, etc.) to /home/myuser/dir2/ in python. Furthermore, I want the copy to overwrite everything in dir2/. It looks like distutils.dir_util.copy_tree might be the right tool…
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MANIFEST.in ignored on "python setup.py install" - no data files installed?

Here's my stripped-down setup.py script with non-code stuff removed: #!/usr/bin/env python from distutils.core import setup from whyteboard.misc import meta setup( name = 'Whyteboard', version = meta.version, packages =…
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Is there a standard way to create Debian packages for distributing Python programs?

There is a ton of information on how to do this, but since "there is more than one way to skin a cat", and all the tutorials/manuals that cover a bit of the process seem to make certain assumptions which are different from other tutorials, I still…
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distutils: How to pass a user defined parameter to setup.py?

How can I pass a user-defined parameter both from the command line and setup.cfg configuration file to distutils' setup.py script? I want to write a setup.py script, which accepts my package specific parameters. For example: python setup.py install…
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