[Distutils] "clean" doesn't

[Michael Hudson]

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

> (please cc me on any replies - i'm not on the distutils sig)
> 
> Am I missing something or is "python setup.py clean" only a feeble attempt
> at cleaning what was created by distutils?  If I execute
> 
>     python setup.py build
>     python setup.py clean
>     python setup.py build
> 
> the second build does nothing, claiming that everything is up-to-date.  In
> my opinion, the clean command should delete the entire build subdirectory,
> not just the build/temp.<arch> directory.

Have you tried 

python setup.py clean -a

? (like I suggested when you submitted this as a bug)

Perhaps this should be the default?

Cheers,
M.

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