`setup.py install` is the base standard install method for Python projects. I found myself wanting to uninstall one of these projects the other day. Turns out it doesn't support uninstall, but Google's top result is a Stackoverflow answer with ~250 votes that says [it can be done no problem](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1550226/python-setup-py-uninstall).
-What it doesn't say is that it will silently fail / delete the wrong files when filenames have spaces, along with other important limitations. I looked around at all the other answers and links from google and there was no better answer. How does this happen for a widely used package inluded in Python for at least [15 years](http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/61c91c7f101b/Lib/distutils)?
+What it doesn't say is that it will silently fail / delete the wrong files when filenames have spaces, along with other important limitations. I looked around at all the other answers and links from google and there was no better answer. How does this happen for a widely used package included in Python for at least [15 years](http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/61c91c7f101b/Lib/distutils)?
It’s pretty standard fair: uninstall has spotty support across a great many installation technologies. I won't try to draw some broad conclusion.
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