[Distutils] pythonv, take two

[Éric Araujo]

> 1. It seems... tempting but ill-advised to make it a "fake" ConfigParser
> option if in the place where I use it, I'm not actually parsing the file
> with full ConfigParser semantics. It might work, but then someone tries
> to get clever with a [DEFAULT] section, or interpolation, or who knows
> what else, and it breaks mysteriously.

It’s still time to define the file format as RawConfigParser-style,
without interpolation.

> 2. I still have to duplicate in C and Python code the logic for finding
> the config file in the first place. Or I guess just move it to C and
> stash the location in sys or somewhere the Python code can get to it
> later. I'd been hoping to avoid this, but oh well...

*hands a courage cookie* I have to say the proof of concept in pure
Python was impressive.  Too bad it’s not enough :)

Cheers