The distutils package provides support for building and installing additional modules into a Python installation. The new modules may be either 100%-pure Python, or may be extension modules written in C, or may be collections of Python packages which include modules coded in both Python and C.
This package is discussed in two separate chapters:
See also
27.14. fpectl — Floating point exception control
28. Custom Python Interpreters
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