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On 10/02/2016 19:05, Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> not entirely on-topic here, but is distutils still being in active use "in
> the wild" ?
>
> -Sivan
>

Given that there was distutils2 which took the same course as the 
Norwegian Blue, I would say no, distutils is not active.  I'll happily 
stand corrected.

As a slight aside, please don't top post, it's irritating, thanks :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence