Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 67ada6ab7fe2 by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7':
Clarify distutils’ clean command (ref #6142)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/67ada6ab7fe2
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Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 066b896b6132 by Éric Araujo in branch '3.3':
Clarify distutils’ clean command (ref #6142)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/066b896b6132
New changeset 50ee8fe8e841 by Éric Araujo in branch 'default':
Clarify distutils’ clean command (ref #6142)
Éric Araujo added the comment:
distutils doc now warns about clean not removing extensions built in place.
distutils2 is no more. Closing.
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assignee: - docs@python
components: +Documentation -Distutils2
nosy: +docs@python
resolution: - out of date
stage: needs patch -
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
Discussion summary:
- clean is supposed to remove the products of build
- build_ext is a subcommand of build
- build_ext with the inplace option writes files that are not removed by clean
- removing .pyc files is out of scope (they’re products of
