[Distutils] Access to Python config info

[John Skaller]

At 01:40 23/12/98 +1000, John Skaller wrote:

        Duh, sorry for replying to my own post again but:

>EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
>
>        1. module parse_configuration, function get_config
>          returns a dictionary of config data parsed from
>          the makefile

        This depends on knowing where the makefile and
the config file are. Which suggest a further factorisation:

        def parse_config_h(filename)
        def parse_makefile(filename)

which would be generally useful! And truly statless.
Now, provide:

        def get_config_h_filename()
        def get_makefile_filename()

and we can wrap them up to get:

        def get_config():
                dict = parse_config_h(get_config_h_filename())
                dict.update(parse_config_h(get_makefile_filename()))
                return dict

Again, this factorisation simplifies the design, and also
creates added functionality.
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