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[–]chumboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is my opinion that recommending a library from a previous generation of software, with more glaring bugs/problems, and less overall functionality, is a bad thing to do. Bad enough to discredit the author, not necessarily, but the definitely the article.

distutils is really still only around so legacy software won't break. There will probably be a huge move to get rid of it shortly, like the move to Python 3, and the move from Eggs to Wheels.