[Python-Dev] test_tempfile failure on Mac OSX (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Aug 17 00:09:25 CEST 2004


On Aug 16, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:

Bob> Even better (and I think this is what he was actually asking for): Bob> % python -c 'import distutils.sysconfig; print Bob> distutils.sysconfig.getconfigvar("CONFIGARGS")' Thanks. Not as easy to remember as "grep configure config.status", but useful nonetheless.

Yeah, but I don't have a hard time remembering that the Makefile (that gets distributed w/ Python) knows everything, and that distutils knows how to read the Makefile. It's hard to remember the names of the make variables and the distutils incantation, but neither are hard to look up (if you've been through it a couple times anyway).

I prefer not to depend on your solution because it's only useful if you compiled Python and still have access to that build tree (and remember which one it was). The first CONFIG_ARGS I spit out was the one used to build Python 2.3.0 on Mac OS X 10.3, and I certainly didn't do that here :)

-bob



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