From 074ee767b9d62e35c121c8f1e008813169ab8e22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Tarek=20Ziad=C3=A9?= Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 09:44:36 +0000 Subject: Made sysconfig a script that displays useful information - #8770 --- Doc/library/sysconfig.rst | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) (limited to 'Doc/library') diff --git a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst index 24264364c3..0a7e3de17b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst @@ -216,3 +216,35 @@ Other functions .. function:: get_config_h_filename() Return the path of :file:`pyconfig.h`. + +Using :mod:`sysconfig` as a script +---------------------------------- + +You can use :mod:`sysconfig` as a script with Python's *-m* option:: + + $ python -m sysconfig + Platform: "macosx-10.4-i386" + Python version: "3.2" + Current installation scheme: "posix_prefix" + + Paths: + data = "/usr/local" + include = "/Users/tarek/Dev/svn.python.org/py3k/Include" + platinclude = "." + platlib = "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages" + platstdlib = "/usr/local/lib/python3.2" + purelib = "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages" + scripts = "/usr/local/bin" + stdlib = "/usr/local/lib/python3.2" + + Variables: + AC_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD = "0" + AIX_GENUINE_CPLUSPLUS = "0" + AR = "ar" + ARFLAGS = "rc" + ASDLGEN = "./Parser/asdl_c.py" + ... + +This call will print in the standard output the information returned by +:func:`get_platform`, :func:`get_python_version`, :func:`get_path` and +:func:`get_config_vars`. -- cgit v1.2.1