Verifying Setuptools installation on Linux

Use the following import in your Python terminal to verify if the Setuptools installation has been done properly or not:

import setuptools

If we do not get any error while importing the package then is not installed properly.

Setuptools is a package development process library that extends the Python standard library distutils to make it easier to package Python projects (distribution utilities). It contains the following features:

• Package and module declarations in Python
• Metadata from the distribution package
• Hooks for testing
• Installation of the project
• Platform-specific information
• Support for Python3

In this article, we will learn how to install Setuptools for Python on Linux.