May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
13h 37m
English
Source distributions are essential for developers, but they often contain many elements that aren't necessary for an end user, such as unit tests or example code. In addition to this, if the project contains compiled code (such as Python extensions written in C), that code will require compilation before it can be used on the target. To address this, setuptools offers a variety of built distribution types. A built distribution provides a ready-made set of files, which only need to be copied to the appropriate directories to use.
In this section, we'll talk about how to work with built distributions.
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