At 12:40 AM 1/26/2006 -0800, Andrew Straw wrote:

Hi,

Attempting to use variable subsitition in my ~/.pydistutils.cfg file (which I'd like to use across both Python 2.3 and Python 2.4), I find that

[install] prefix=~/py$py_version_short-$PLAT

works fine

while the $variables in

[easy_install] site_dirs=~/py$py_version_short-$PLAT/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages

don't get expanded.

These $variables seem to be an undocumented distutils feature (at least they aren't in the online docs for distutils), but they're nevertheless handy. Would it be possible to include them in setuptools? They are implemented in distutils.util subst_vars().

Actually they're implemented by distutils.command.install.install, but it looks fairly straightforward to add. I've put it on my to-do list.