Distutils

Distutils is by now the standard mechanism to distribute Python packages and extensions, and appeared in Python 1.6. It runs under 1.5.2 though, but you have to install it (once) to use it for that Python version.

Learning Distutils

Documentation

• distutils — Building and installing Python modules

  • Distributing Python Modules - information for developers

  • Installing Python Modules - information for users and system administrators

• distutils SIG

• PyPI's XML-RPC interface for querying the packages database

• Distutils/Cookbook

Projects

• Distutils/Projects - please add a listing to this page if you're working on Distutils (and help us reduce duplication of effort)

• DistUtils/Extensions is a repository of extensions for your "setup.py".

Tutorials

• Distutils/Tutorial is a small tutorial to introduce the topic. It includes a complete demo, from start to finish.

• CheeseShopTutorial is a related tutorial that just covers submitting information to the Python Package Index

• Jeremy Hylton has written a Python Package Index (PyPI) tutorial. This covers the use of the distutils register command.

Misc.

Distutils/FAQ

Distutils/Proposals

#distutils - irc channel for Distutils