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Documentation
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Setuptools is a fully-featured, actively-maintained, and stable library
designed to facilitate packaging Python projects.

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   User guide <userguide/index>
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   setuptools

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   roadmap
   Development guide <development/index>
   Backward compatibility & deprecated practice <deprecated/index>
   Changelog <history>
   Artwork <images/README>

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