Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

(please cc me on any replies - i'm not on the distutils sig)

Am I missing something or is "python setup.py clean" only a feeble attempt at cleaning what was created by distutils? If I execute

python setup.py build python setup.py clean python setup.py build

the second build does nothing, claiming that everything is up-to-date. In my opinion, the clean command should delete the entire build subdirectory, not just the build/temp.<arch> directory.

Have you tried python setup.py clean -a ? (like I suggested when you submitted this as a bug) Perhaps this should be the default? Cheers, M. -- 39. Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html