[Tim]
If distutils output isn't interesting to PyInline users, shouldn't PyInline be changed to run setup.py with its -q/--quiet option?
[Skip]
Probably so, but not all prints are guarded by "if verbose:".
Have you tried it in the case you complained about at the start of this? These days I routinely build elaborate pieces of Zope using -q, and the only msgs I ever see then are things like """ MultiMapping.c Creating library build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\MultiMapping.lib and object build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\MultiMapping.exp """ I believe those are generated by Microsoft's compiler (the case-sensitive string "Creating" appears nohwere in the distutils source; and yes, these go to stdout too), and if so there's nothing distutils can do about that. I don't see any messages that look like they come from distutils. just-because-you-don't-understand-the-code-doesn't-mean-it-doesn't- do-what-you-want<wink>-ly y'rs - tim