On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Jens Vagelpohl <jens@dataflake.org> wrote:
I understand that. But it must be possible to do that programatically in my code. I mean, "setup.py --long-description" obviously executes Python code, which I may be able to execute myself in my current interpreter session by importing and executing stuff from setuptools. Having to invoke another Python interpreter in a subshell because that's too complicated to do any other way is awful.
Maybe this gets you a bit further: import os from setuptools.sandbox import run_setup package = os.path.join(os.curdir, 'zope.component') os.chdir(package) run_setup('setup.py', ['--long-description']) os.chdir(os.pardir) The run_setup call seems to dump the output to sys.stdout which might be a bit painful to grab. Hanno