[Distutils] Odd thought

[Paul F. Dubois]

Aha. If a setup.py started with this:
import sys
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
    sys.argv.append('install')

it would work to double-click it. No window needed. (:->

This is no more offensive than my ipy idea. For those who don't like this,
it could print a prompt "Install? (y/n): ", read the answer, etc.

That said, if distutils' setup command contained this code...

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From: guido@cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com
[mailto:guido@cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com]On Behalf Of Guido van
Rossum
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:00 AM
To: Thomas Heller
Cc: Rene Liebscher; Jack Jansen; Paul F. Dubois;
distutils-sig@python.org; David Ascher
Subject: Re: [Distutils] Odd thought


> The problem I see is that there is no way to create a dialog-box
> on windows without either requiring win32all to be installed,
> or to use a custom python interpreter 'py_dialog.exe' which
> would then display a dialog box (and maybe also display the
> output of the script)

You could at least *try* to import Tkinter and see if it exists.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)