[Python-Dev] addressing distutils inability to track file dependencies

[Michael Hudson]

"Thomas Heller" <thomas.heller@ion-tof.com> writes:

> Then there's Berthold Höllmanns test-command he posted to the
> distutils sig, which internally runs the 'build' command, then extends
> sys.path by build_purelib, build_platlib, and the test-directory, and
> finally runs the tests in the test-directory files.

You could have a variant of that that just ran a
code.InteractiveInterpreter.  

$ python setup.py play-around

Cheers,
M.

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