[Distutils] Query distutils for directory names

[Bastian Kleineidam]

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Hi Bill,

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:33:58AM -0600, Bill Spotz wrote:
> Is there a way to query distutils to give me the name of the lib and/or 
> temp directories (i.e., on my machine, 
> build/lib.darwin-7.5.0-PowerMacintosh-2.3 and 
> build/temp.darwin-7.5.0-PowerMacintosh-2.3) that distutils creates 
> during its build process?  I can't find anything in the documentation.
The distutils.command.build class has the following variables which
might help you:
        self.build_purelib
        self.build_platlib
        self.build_lib
        self.build_temp
        self.build_scripts

So you could make a subclass of the build class:

class mybuild (distutils.command.build, object):
    def run (self):
        super(mybuild, self).run()
        print "build dir for platform-neutral modules is", self.build_purelib


setup(...
      cmdclass = {'build': mybuild},
      ...
     ) 

This way, you always have the correct build dir available even when the
user changes it with command line options.

Regards,
  Bastian

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