def check_config_h():
"""Check if the current Python installation appears amenable to building
extensions with GCC.
Returns a tuple (status, details), where 'status' is one of the following
constants:
- CONFIG_H_OK: all is well, go ahead and compile
- CONFIG_H_NOTOK: doesn't look good
- CONFIG_H_UNCERTAIN: not sure -- unable to read pyconfig.h
'details' is a human-readable string explaining the situation.
Note there are two ways to conclude "OK": either 'sys.version' contains
the string "GCC" (implying that this Python was built with GCC), or the
installed "pyconfig.h" contains the string "__GNUC__".
"""
# XXX since this function also checks sys.version, it's not strictly a
# "pyconfig.h" check -- should probably be renamed...
# if sys.version contains GCC then python was compiled with GCC, and the
# pyconfig.h file should be OK
if "GCC" in sys.version:
return CONFIG_H_OK, "sys.version mentions 'GCC'"
# let's see if __GNUC__ is mentioned in python.h
fn = sysconfig.get_config_h_filename()
try:
config_h = open(fn)
try:
if "__GNUC__" in config_h.read():
return CONFIG_H_OK, "'%s' mentions '__GNUC__'" % fn
else:
return CONFIG_H_NOTOK, "'%s' does not mention '__GNUC__'" % fn
finally:
config_h.close()
except IOError, exc:
return (CONFIG_H_UNCERTAIN,
"couldn't read '%s': %s" % (fn, exc.strerror))
def check_config_h():
"""Check if the current Python installation appears amenable to building
extensions with GCC.
Returns a tuple (status, details), where 'status' is one of the following
constants:
- CONFIG_H_OK: all is well, go ahead and compile
- CONFIG_H_NOTOK: doesn't look good
- CONFIG_H_UNCERTAIN: not sure -- unable to read pyconfig.h
'details' is a human-readable string explaining the situation.
Note there are two ways to conclude "OK": either 'sys.version' contains
the string "GCC" (implying that this Python was built with GCC), or the
installed "pyconfig.h" contains the string "__GNUC__".
"""
# XXX since this function also checks sys.version, it's not strictly a
# "pyconfig.h" check -- should probably be renamed...
# if sys.version contains GCC then python was compiled with GCC, and the
# pyconfig.h file should be OK
if "GCC" in sys.version:
return CONFIG_H_OK, "sys.version mentions 'GCC'"
# let's see if __GNUC__ is mentioned in python.h
fn = sysconfig.get_config_h_filename()
try:
with open(fn) as config_h:
if "__GNUC__" in config_h.read():
return CONFIG_H_OK, "'%s' mentions '__GNUC__'" % fn
else:
return CONFIG_H_NOTOK, "'%s' does not mention '__GNUC__'" % fn
except IOError as exc:
return (CONFIG_H_UNCERTAIN,
"couldn't read '%s': %s" % (fn, exc.strerror))
def test_get_config_h_filename(self):
config_h = sysconfig.get_config_h_filename()
self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(config_h), config_h)
def test_get_config_h_filename(self):
config_h = sysconfig.get_config_h_filename()
self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(config_h), config_h)
