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pre-processing source from distutils

Is it possible to pre-process source code from distutils? I don't want
to do anything too fancy. I just want to put the VERSION from setup.py
(and maybe a date) into the module at sdist or build time (I haven't
decided which of those would be cleaner). Anybody know of a clean way
to do this?

I don't mind writing an arbitrarily complex function to edit files or
whatever. The problem is getting it called at the right time and
knowing what mode setup.py is being called in.

Thanks,
Michael

Jul 18 '05 #1
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Michael Stenner wrote:
Is it possible to pre-process source code from distutils? I don't want
to do anything too fancy. I just want to put the VERSION from setup.py
(and maybe a date) into the module at sdist or build time (I haven't
decided which of those would be cleaner). Anybody know of a clean way
to do this?


After some hunting around, I found that the preferred way to handle this
specific problem is to put __version__ = 'x.x.x' in the module itself
(or in __init__.py for a package) and then have setup.py import the
module and slurp the version in from there. That works for me.

-Michael

Jul 18 '05 #2

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