[Distutils] How can I silence setuptools/distutils output in a custom command?

[Jason Baker]

I've written a simple setuptools command that will read options from a
setup.cfg.  The code is here:
http://github.com/jasonbaker/rdopts/blob/master/rdopts.py

I'd like to be able to use the output of this command to pass to other
programs, but that is a bit difficult when distutils is writing "running
rdopts" out every time I use it.  The solution I found is to just call
distutils.log.set_threshold(ERROR) at import time, but that just feels like
a recipe for something to go wrong.  Are there any better ways to do this?
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