David Arnold wrote:

i'm in the middle of moving a package from using autoconf to distutils, and i'm having trouble finding a good way to do substitution of configured/discovered options into a template file.

in autoconf, i have a config.py.in file, which contains lines of the form

default_url = "@default_url@"

at configure time, the @foo@ values are replaced with real content, from --with-default-url options to configure, and various other discovered stuff.

the package is pure Python, so i have been able to just run install, which in turn ran build, and i don't really want to add a config step unless i have to.

i have played with sub-classing the build command, and adding a file copy and substitute step into the run command, but ...

has anyone else done something like this? any suggestions?

Python 2.1 uses the approach you describe for setup.cfg: it has a setup.cfg.in which then gets updated by configure to form the final setup.cfg file. Would this be what you need ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/