At 12:40 AM 1/26/2006 -0800, Andrew Straw wrote: >Hi, > >Attempting to use variable subsitition in my ~/.pydistutils.cfg file >(which I'd like to use across both Python 2.3 and Python 2.4), I find that > >[install] >prefix=~/py$py_version_short-$PLAT > >works fine > >while the $variables in > >[easy_install] >site_dirs=~/py$py_version_short-$PLAT/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages > >don't get expanded. > >These $variables seem to be an undocumented distutils feature (at least >they aren't in the online docs for distutils), but they're nevertheless >handy. Would it be possible to include them in setuptools? They are >implemented in distutils.util subst_vars().
Actually they're implemented by distutils.command.install.install, but it looks fairly straightforward to add. I've put it on my to-do list. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
