Frequently I have encountered projects packaged using setuptools, with a setup.py. To find out how to install it, I usually turned to Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/a/1472014) which doesn't explain what options exist or do.
Surprisingly, neither "setup.py" nor "setup.py --help" doesn't provide a list of options either, instead telling you how to show various metadata options which are not useful to end users of the software project, trying to build/install it. Instead, to show a list of useful actions a user can perform, you need to use "setup.py --help-commands", which I only discovered several years after starting to use Python. Why isn't this command enabled by default (called without arguments, or with --help). https://imgur.com/a/HF4Iw6D -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
