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Distutils FAQ

General Questions

Can you use distutils (i.e., your setup.py file) to ‘’’un’’’install a given package?

Unfortunately, no. There is a proposal for this, and this would be a useful feature to have though… However, the KDE group has written a wrapper for distutils that adds a simple uninstall command.