Donald Stufft added the comment: We re-execute Python to run setup.py. Even from wheels we do it to compile pyc files.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 29, 2016, at 2:38 PM, R. David Murray <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > > R. David Murray added the comment: > > Yes, you are right; I was thinking that distutils and/or pip re-executed > python for certain tasks, but upon reflection I don't think they do. > > ---------- > stage: -> needs patch > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue28552> > _______________________________________ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28552> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com