Install Setuptools 49.1.3
ActiveState has made it easy to install the latest version of Setuptools. Copy and paste the snippet below into your terminal to install a verified, built-from-source version of Setuptools from ActiveState's free repository. We've taken care of all the dependencies so you don't have to.
Run the following command in your terminal
pip3 install --index-url https://har.activestate.com/activestate/trusted-artifacts/latest Setuptools==49.1.3The --index-url parameter tells pip to install the package from ActiveState's repository.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Setuptools is a fully-featured, actively-maintained, and stable library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects. It’s recommended by the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) to help simplify the way users install packages.
The setuptools lib is compatible with Python 3.6 and later. The latest versions of setuptools do not work with Python 2.7.
Setuptools has the following dependencies, which will be installed automatically when installing Setuptools.
- Wheel (whl)
Installing Setuptools Globally
Copy (either ctrl+c or just click the “copy” button) and paste the snippet at the top of this page into your command line. As with all Python packages installed with Python’s default package manager, pip, Setuptools will be installed to %PYTHONHOME%/site-packages.
Installing Setuptools in a Virtual Environment
You can also work in a virtual environment to prevent conflicts. You can use pip to install a specific version of the Setuptools package into a virtual environment for Python 3 projects with the following command:
python3 -m venv <path_to_env>venv will create a virtual Python installation in the <env_name> folder.
Activate <env_name> with the following command:
On Linux
source <env_name>/bin/activateOn Windows
You can pip install Setuptools into your virtual environment with the following command:
python -m pip install setuptoolsAs with all Python packages installed with pip, Setuptools will be installed to %PYTHONHOME%/site-packages. This will always be true for global installations of setuptools. If you’re using a virtual environment (like virtualenv), setuptools will be installed differently, depending (for example) on where you created the directory (dir) for your virtual environment.
Yes, Setuptools will work Windows, Mac, and Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Debian, and other flavors of unix).
Setuptools is commonly used by package authors and maintainers to easily build and distribute Python modules via python.org or the Python Package Index (PyPI repo), especially ones that have dependencies on other packages.
Feature Highlights:
- Create a Python egg, which is a single-file importable distribution format.
- Create a source distribution (sdist) for a specific version of Python
- Enhanced support for accessing data files hosted in zipped (tar.gz) packages.
- Automatically include all packages in your source tree, without listing them individually in setup.py.
- Automatically include all relevant files in your source distributions without needing to create a MANIFEST.in file, and without having to force regeneration of the MANIFEST file when your source tree changes.
- Automatically generate wrapper scripts for Windows (console and GUI) .exe files for any number of “main” functions in your project.
- Note: this is not a py2exe replacement since the .exe files rely on the local Python installation.
- Transparent Cython support, so that your setup.py can list .pyx files and still work even when the end-user doesn’t have Cython installed (as long as you include the Cython-generated C in your source distribution)
- Command aliases, including the ability to create project-specific, per-user, or site-wide shortcut names for commonly used commands and options.
- Deploy your project in “development mode”, such that it’s available on sys.path, yet can still be edited directly from its source checkout.
- Easily extend the distutils with new commands or setup() arguments, and distribute/reuse your extensions for multiple projects, without copying code.
- Create extensible applications and frameworks that automatically discover extensions, using simple “entry points” declared in a project’s setup script.
- Full support for PEP 420 via find_namespace_packages(), which is also backwards compatible to the existing find_packages() for Python >= 3.3.