[Distutils] Question on using distutils.core.run_setup

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>
wrote:

> [cut]



> I never could get run_setup() to work robustly.
>


>
> Here's how setuptools does it, and it works well with quite a lot of
> packages:
>
>         os.chdir(setup_dir)
>         try:
>             sys.argv[:] = [setup_script]+list(args)
>             sys.path.insert(0, setup_dir)
>             DirectorySandbox(setup_dir).run(
>                 lambda: execfile(
>                     "setup.py",
>                     {'__file__':setup_script, '__name__':'__main__'}
>                 )
>             )
>         except SystemExit, v:
>             if v.args and v.args[0]:
>                 raise
>             # Normal exit, just return
>
> This is actually wrapped in a try-finally that saves and restores
> sys.argv, sys.path, os.chdir(), etc.  Have a look at
> setuptools.sandbox.run_setup() for the full source.
>

Cool ! Maybe this could be pushed into distutils ? It looks more like a fix
to me

Tarek
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