pre-processing source from distutils

[Michael Stenner]

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