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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 (``DOS box'') and do it there; on Mac OS, things are a tad more complicated (see below).

Subsections

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