:mod:`!distutils` --- Building and installing Python modules
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.. 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>`_.