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Setuptools is a fully-featured, actively-maintained, and stable library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects, where packaging includes:

  • Python package and module definitions
  • Distribution package metadata
  • Test hooks
  • Project installation
  • Platform-specific details
  • Python 3 support

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