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The pypi package setuptools receives a total of 218,750,041 weekly downloads. As such, setuptools popularity was classified as popular.
We found that setuptools demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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