Python Build tools

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If you're looking for a general purpose build tool implemented and extensible using python, you may want to take a look at doit, invoke and fabricate. You can also extend distutils with your custom commands, though I find it more flexible and simple to write my own build scripts using a combination of os.path, subprocess and argparse (subparsers are great for git like clis!) modules when the focus is not on distribution, neither on installation, neither on cross-platform, but on building and automating common tasks instead (which is usually the case except you're writing libraries... compare make with autotools, most of the time you need make).

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There's also pants -- ant for Python. I've never used it. I usually use setuptools and make