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Thedistutils package provides support for building andinstalling additional modules into a Python installation. The newmodules may be either 100%-pure Python, or may be extension moduleswritten in C, or may be collections of Python packages which includemodules coded in both Python and C.
This package is discussed in two separate documents which are includedin the Python documentation package. To learn about distributing newmodules using thedistutils facilities, readDistributing Python Modules; thisincludes documentation needed to extend distutils. To learnabout installing Python modules, whether or not the author made use ofthedistutils package, readInstalling Python Modules.
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