[Distutils] Bugginess in distutils.core.run_setup?

[Arve Knudsen]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm having difficulties in using  
the distutils.core.run_setup function. Setup scripts that will work  
happily when run from the commandline ("python setup.py") bomb out when  
under run_setup. What happens as far as I can tell is that run_setup  
provides a "locals" argument for execfile, which is used for "import"  
statements. What happens then is that imports on the global level are not  
visible to functions, so an exception is raised when a function tries to  
access a globally imported module. Is this due to faulty logic in  
run_setup (explicitly specifying the "locals" argument)?

Thanks

Arve Knudsen