[Distutils] setup.py clean questions

[Jeremy Kloth]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> Late in the process, I decided to read the source and discovered a
> --all option to clean.  That indeed got rid of most of the stuff I was
> interested in, but spewed even more warnings about directories that
> didn't exist.  It did not, however, remove the 2.0 directories.

Distutils only knows about the current version of Python that you run
the setup.py script with.  In the case of lib.linux-i686-2.1, it appears
you are running Python 2.1, hence the -2.1 on the directory.  So, if you
want to clean 2.0 directories, run the setup.py script with Python 2.0.

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