[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB) (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Nov 30 06:34:33 CET 2006


At 05:10 AM 11/30/2006 +0000, glyph at divmod.com wrote:

On 04:36 am, pje at telecommunity.com wrote:

>easyinstall uses the standard distutils configuration system, which means >that you can do e.g. Hmm. I thought I knew quite a lot about distutils, but this particular nugget had evaded me. Thanks! I see that it's mentioned in the documentation, but I never thought to look in that section. I have an aversion to .ini files; I tend to assume there's always an equivalent Python expression, and it's better. Is there an equivalent Python API in this case?

Well, in a setup.py there's an options or some such that can be used to provide effective command-line option overrides in-line, but that doesn't help for systemwide default configurations, like the files I mentioned. It's effectively only a substitute for setup.cfg.



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