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About

setuptools is an framework enhancement over distutils that allow to more easily build and distribute Python distributions.

See Python - Regular Package (Shipping | Packaging)

Management

Installation

setuptools are included with Python >=3.4 and >=2.7.9. 

python ez_setup.py

Downloading https://pypi.io/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-23.1.0.zip
Extracting in C:\Users\gerard\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp9i_c5_sc
Now working in C:\Users\gerard\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp9i_c5_sc\setuptools-23.1.0
Installing Setuptools
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Installed c:\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools-23.1.0-py3.5.egg
Processing dependencies for setuptools==23.1.0
Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==23.1.0

Update

pip install -U setuptools

Project Structure

See Python - Project

Configuration

See Python - setup.py

Documentation / Reference