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

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:05 PM 4/29/2010 -0500, Jason Baker wrote:
>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>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?

python setup.py -q rdopts