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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:59:12 +1100
Subject: Re: What does "pip install" do?
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Fabien <fabien.maussion@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Chris. I should then rephrase my question to "what does python
> setup.pt do?" ;-). My point was also that I think that this information
> (mostly: what will change on my system or my virtual env when I install a
> python package?) could/should be provided in the mentioned resources:

You'd have to look at the individual packages' setup.py files, I guess.

ChrisA