2 Standard Build and Install

As described in section 1.2, building and installing a module distribution using the Distutils is usually one simple command:

python setup.py install

On Unix, you'd run this command from a shell prompt; on Windows, you have to open a command prompt window and do it there; on Mac OS ... ** what the heck do you do on Mac OS? **.

Subsections

2.1 Platform variations
2.2 Splitting the job up
2.3 How building works
2.4 How installation works

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