How to create both a c extension and a pure python package

[Marco Sulla]

As title. Currently I ended up using this trick in my setup.py:


if len(argv) > 1 and argv[1] == "c":
    sys.argv = [sys.argv[0]] + sys.argv[2:]
    setuptools.setup(ext_modules = ext_modules, **common_setup_args)
else:
    setuptools.setup(**common_setup_args)


So if I pass "c" as the first argument of ./setup.py , the c extension
is builded, otherwise the py version is packaged.

Is there not a better way to do this?