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Author elmjag
Recipients docs@python, elmjag, eric.araujo, sobolevn, taleinat
Date 2022-02-02.07:53:49
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I agree that documenting third-party tools in CPython docs is a bit weird. I guess this is more an issue with setuptools docs. IMHO here is no clear explanation on how to build extension modules there.

As a temporary work around, I wrote an example of building extension module with setuptools here:

https://elmjag.github.io/setuptools.html
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2022-02-02 07:53:50elmjagsetrecipients: + elmjag, taleinat, eric.araujo, docs@python, sobolevn
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