[Distutils] installing distutils

[Rob F. Van Der Wijngaart]

Dear Distutils-sig,

I would like to install Python's distutils, but do not have
write permission in the Python installation directory on my
system. The README file in the distutils distribution does
not tell me how to install elsewhere, and I am too much of
a novice at Python to figure out what to change otherwise.
Can you tell me how to install distutils in a user directory
and use it from there? Thanks.

Regards,   Rob F. Van der Wijngaart
           NASA Ames Research Center