:mod:!distutils --- Building and installing Python modules

.. module:: distutils :synopsis: Removed in 3.12. :deprecated:

.. deprecated-removed:: 3.10 3.12

This module is no longer part of the Python standard library. It was :ref:removed in Python 3.12 <whatsnew312-removed-distutils> after being deprecated in Python 3.10. The removal was decided in :pep:632, which has migration advice <https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/#migration-advice>_.

The last version of Python that provided the :mod:!distutils module was Python 3.11 <https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/distutils.html>_.