class Distribution: (source)
The core of the Distutils. Most of the work hiding behind 'setup' is really done within a Distribution instance, which farms the work out to the Distutils commands specified on the command line. Setup scripts will almost never instantiate Distribution directly, unless the 'setup()' function is totally inadequate to their needs. However, it is conceivable that a setup script might wish to subclass Distribution for some specialized purpose, and then pass the subclass to 'setup()' as the 'distclass' keyword argument. If so, it is necessary to respect the expectations that 'setup' has of Distribution. See the code for 'setup()', in core.py, for details.
Method | __init__ |
Construct a new Distribution instance: initialize all the attributes of a Distribution, and then use 'attrs' (a dictionary mapping attribute names to values) to assign some of those attributes their "real" values... |
Method | announce |
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Method | dump |
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Method | finalize |
Set final values for all the options on the Distribution instance, analogous to the .finalize_options() method of Command objects. |
Method | find |
Find as many configuration files as should be processed for this platform, and return a list of filenames in the order in which they should be parsed. The filenames returned are guaranteed to exist (modulo nasty race conditions). |
Method | get |
Return the class that implements the Distutils command named by 'command'. First we check the 'cmdclass' dictionary; if the command is mentioned there, we fetch the class object from the dictionary and return it... |
Method | get |
Get a list of (command, description) tuples. The list is divided into "standard commands" (listed in distutils.command.__all__) and "extra commands" (mentioned in self.cmdclass, but not a standard command)... |
Method | get |
Return the command object for 'command'. Normally this object is cached on a previous call to 'get_command_obj()'; if no command object for 'command' is in the cache, then we either create and return it (if 'create' is true) or return None. |
Method | get |
Return a list of packages from which commands are loaded. |
Method | get |
Get the option dictionary for a given command. If that command's option dictionary hasn't been created yet, then create it and return the new dictionary; otherwise, return the existing option dictionary. |
Method | handle |
If there were any non-global "display-only" options (--help-commands or the metadata display options) on the command line, display the requested info and return true; else return false. |
Method | has |
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Method | has |
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Method | has |
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Method | has |
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Method | has |
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Method | has |
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Method | has |
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Method | is |
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Method | parse |
Parse the setup script's command line, taken from the 'script_args' instance attribute (which defaults to 'sys.argv[1:]' -- see 'setup()' in core.py). This list is first processed for "global options" -- options that set attributes of the Distribution instance... |
Method | parse |
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Method | print |
Print a subset of the list of all commands -- used by 'print_commands()'. |
Method | print |
Print out a help message listing all available commands with a description of each. The list is divided into "standard commands" (listed in distutils.command.__all__) and "extra commands" (mentioned in self... |
Method | reinitialize |
Reinitializes a command to the state it was in when first returned by 'get_command_obj()': ie., initialized but not yet finalized. This provides the opportunity to sneak option values in programmatically, overriding or supplementing user-supplied values from the config files and command line... |
Method | run |
Do whatever it takes to run a command (including nothing at all, if the command has already been run). Specifically: if we have already created and run the command named by 'command', return silently without doing anything... |
Method | run |
Run each command that was seen on the setup script command line. Uses the list of commands found and cache of command objects created by 'get_command_obj()'. |
Class Variable | common |
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Class Variable | display |
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Class Variable | display |
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Class Variable | global |
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Class Variable | negative |
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Instance Variable | cmdclass |
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Instance Variable | command |
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Instance Variable | command |
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Instance Variable | command |
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Instance Variable | commands |
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Instance Variable | data |
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Instance Variable | dist |
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Instance Variable | dry |
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Instance Variable | ext |
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Instance Variable | ext |
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Instance Variable | extra |
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Instance Variable | have |
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Instance Variable | headers |
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Instance Variable | help |
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Instance Variable | include |
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Instance Variable | libraries |
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Instance Variable | metadata |
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Instance Variable | package |
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Instance Variable | package |
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Instance Variable | packages |
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Instance Variable | password |
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Instance Variable | py |
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Instance Variable | script |
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Instance Variable | script |
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Instance Variable | scripts |
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Instance Variable | verbose |
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Instance Variable | want |
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Method | _gen |
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Method | _get |
Return the non-display options recognized at the top level. |
Method | _parse |
Parse the command-line options for a single command. 'parser' must be a FancyGetopt instance; 'args' must be the list of arguments, starting with the current command (whose options we are about to parse)... |
Method | _set |
Set the options for 'command_obj' from 'option_dict'. Basically this means copying elements of a dictionary ('option_dict') to attributes of an instance ('command'). |
Method | _show |
Show help for the setup script command-line in the form of several lists of command-line options. 'parser' should be a FancyGetopt instance; do not expect it to be returned in the same state, as its option table will be reset to make it generate the correct help text. |
Construct a new Distribution instance: initialize all the attributes of a Distribution, and then use 'attrs' (a dictionary mapping attribute names to values) to assign some of those attributes their "real" values. (Any attributes not mentioned in 'attrs' will be assigned to some null value: 0, None, an empty list or dictionary, etc.) Most importantly, initialize the 'command_obj' attribute to the empty dictionary; this will be filled in with real command objects by 'parse_command_line()'.
Set final values for all the options on the Distribution instance, analogous to the .finalize_options() method of Command objects.
Find as many configuration files as should be processed for this platform, and return a list of filenames in the order in which they should be parsed. The filenames returned are guaranteed to exist (modulo nasty race conditions). There are multiple possible config files: - distutils.cfg in the Distutils installation directory (i.e. where the top-level Distutils __inst__.py file lives) - a file in the user's home directory named .pydistutils.cfg on Unix and pydistutils.cfg on Windows/Mac; may be disabled with the ``--no-user-cfg`` option - setup.cfg in the current directory - a file named by an environment variable
Return the class that implements the Distutils command named by 'command'. First we check the 'cmdclass' dictionary; if the command is mentioned there, we fetch the class object from the dictionary and return it. Otherwise we load the command module ("distutils.command." + command) and fetch the command class from the module. The loaded class is also stored in 'cmdclass' to speed future calls to 'get_command_class()'. Raises DistutilsModuleError if the expected module could not be found, or if that module does not define the expected class.
Get a list of (command, description) tuples. The list is divided into "standard commands" (listed in distutils.command.__all__) and "extra commands" (mentioned in self.cmdclass, but not a standard command). The descriptions come from the command class attribute 'description'.
Return the command object for 'command'. Normally this object is cached on a previous call to 'get_command_obj()'; if no command object for 'command' is in the cache, then we either create and return it (if 'create' is true) or return None.
Get the option dictionary for a given command. If that command's option dictionary hasn't been created yet, then create it and return the new dictionary; otherwise, return the existing option dictionary.
If there were any non-global "display-only" options (--help-commands or the metadata display options) on the command line, display the requested info and return true; else return false.
Parse the setup script's command line, taken from the 'script_args' instance attribute (which defaults to 'sys.argv[1:]' -- see 'setup()' in core.py). This list is first processed for "global options" -- options that set attributes of the Distribution instance. Then, it is alternately scanned for Distutils commands and options for that command. Each new command terminates the options for the previous command. The allowed options for a command are determined by the 'user_options' attribute of the command class -- thus, we have to be able to load command classes in order to parse the command line. Any error in that 'options' attribute raises DistutilsGetoptError; any error on the command-line raises DistutilsArgError. If no Distutils commands were found on the command line, raises DistutilsArgError. Return true if command-line was successfully parsed and we should carry on with executing commands; false if no errors but we shouldn't execute commands (currently, this only happens if user asks for help).
Print out a help message listing all available commands with a description of each. The list is divided into "standard commands" (listed in distutils.command.__all__) and "extra commands" (mentioned in self.cmdclass, but not a standard command). The descriptions come from the command class attribute 'description'.
Reinitializes a command to the state it was in when first returned by 'get_command_obj()': ie., initialized but not yet finalized. This provides the opportunity to sneak option values in programmatically, overriding or supplementing user-supplied values from the config files and command line. You'll have to re-finalize the command object (by calling 'finalize_options()' or 'ensure_finalized()') before using it for real. 'command' should be a command name (string) or command object. If 'reinit_subcommands' is true, also reinitializes the command's sub-commands, as declared by the 'sub_commands' class attribute (if it has one). See the "install" command for an example. Only reinitializes the sub-commands that actually matter, ie. those whose test predicates return true. Returns the reinitialized command object.
Do whatever it takes to run a command (including nothing at all, if the command has already been run). Specifically: if we have already created and run the command named by 'command', return silently without doing anything. If the command named by 'command' doesn't even have a command object yet, create one. Then invoke 'run()' on that command object (or an existing one).
Run each command that was seen on the setup script command line. Uses the list of commands found and cache of command objects created by 'get_command_obj()'.
Return the non-display options recognized at the top level. This includes options that are recognized *only* at the top level as well as options recognized for commands.
Parse the command-line options for a single command. 'parser' must be a FancyGetopt instance; 'args' must be the list of arguments, starting with the current command (whose options we are about to parse). Returns a new version of 'args' with the next command at the front of the list; will be the empty list if there are no more commands on the command line. Returns None if the user asked for help on this command.
Set the options for 'command_obj' from 'option_dict'. Basically this means copying elements of a dictionary ('option_dict') to attributes of an instance ('command'). 'command_obj' must be a Command instance. If 'option_dict' is not supplied, uses the standard option dictionary for this command (from 'self.command_options').
Show help for the setup script command-line in the form of several lists of command-line options. 'parser' should be a FancyGetopt instance; do not expect it to be returned in the same state, as its option table will be reset to make it generate the correct help text. If 'global_options' is true, lists the global options: --verbose, --dry-run, etc. If 'display_options' is true, lists the "display-only" options: --name, --version, etc. Finally, lists per-command help for every command name or command class in 'commands'.