Category "distutils"

Is `setup.cfg` deprecated?

It's not completely clear to me, what is the status of setup.cfg. I am looking for solutions for my other question about PEP 508 environment markers, and I beca

How to access python package metadata from within the python console?

If I have built a python package employing distutils.core, e.g. via setup( ext_package="foo", author="me", version="1.0", description="foo pack

Testing Python C libraries - get build path

When using setuptools/distutils to build C libraries in Python $ python setup.py build the *.so/*.pyd files are placed in build/lib.win32-2.7 (or equivalent)