The Python Apprentice

Configuring a package with distutils

Let's see a simple example of distutils. We'll create a basic setup.py installation script for the palindrome module we wrote in the Chapter 11, Debugging with PDB.

The first thing we want to do is to create a directory to hold our project. Let's call this palindrome:

$ mkdir palindrome$ cd palindrome

Let's put a copy of our palindrome.py in this directory:

"""palindrome.py - Detect palindromic integers"""import unittestdef digits(x):    """Convert an integer into a list of digits.    Args:      x: The number whose digits we want.    Returns: A list of the digits, in order, of ``x``.    >>> digits(4586378)    [4, 5, 8, 6, 3, 7, 8]    """    digs = []    while x != 0:        div, mod = divmod(x, 10)        digs.append(mod)        x = div    return digsdef ...