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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:56:16 +1000
Subject: Re: Imports (in Py3), please help a novice
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:46 AM, John Ladasky
<john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I was trying to RTFM linearly, beginning (naturally) at the beginning

Alas, the King of Hearts's good advice [1] doesn't work so well with
large documentation. :) It seems distutils is rather more complicated
than could be desired; but wasn't there a project a while ago to
simplify all that mess? Or was distutils the result of that, and it
used to be worse?

ChrisA

[1] To the White Rabbit -
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland/Chapter_12#182