I have not worked with packaging Python module for so long. It seems distutils was deprecated since Python 2.4. The recommendation is to use setuptools instead. It offers lots of useful functionalities, e.g., easy install with automatic dependencies resolver.

To create a package with setuptools, the package should have

I am proud to announce my latest work called pyedxl which is a python library for handling OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element. At this time, it partially supports most of specification version 1.0 published on March 14, 2006. The main purpose to develop this library is to learn how to use lxml effectively. For those who can't stand to read, you might directly go to the Subversion repository.