# 27. Paquets et distribution de paquets logiciels

These libraries help you with publishing and installing Python software. While these modules are designed to work in conjunction with the Python Package Index, they can also be used with a local index server, or without any index server at all.

- 27.1. `distutils` — Création et installation des modules Python
- 27.2. `ensurepip` — Bootstrapping the `pip` installer
  - 27.2.1. Command line interface
  - 27.2.2. Module API