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I have a python module fully implemented in python. (For portability reasons.) The implementation of a small part has been duplicated in a cython module. To improve perfomance where possible. I know how to install the .c modules created by cython with distutils . However if a machine has no compiler installed, I suspect the setup will fail even though the module is still usable in pure python mode. Is there a way to compile the .c module if possible but fail gracefully and install without it if compiling is not possible? I guess you will have to make some modification both in your setup.py and

I have a python project that uses google protobufs as a message format for communicating over the network. Generating python files from the .proto files is straight-forward using the protoc program. How can I configure my setup.py file for the project so that it automatically calls the protoc command? In a similar situation, I ended up with this code (setup.py, but written in a way to allow extraction into some external Python module for reuse). Note that I took the generate_proto function and several ideas from the setup.py file of the protobuf source distribution. from __future__ import

Currently I'm using the auto-tools to build/install and package a project of mine, but I would really like to move to something that feels more "pythonic". My project consists of two scripts, one module, two glade GUI descriptions, and two .desktop files. It's currently a pure python project, though that's likely to change soon-ish. Looking at setuptools I can easily see how to deal with everything except the .desktop files; they have to end up in a specific directory so that Gnome can find them. Is using distuils/setuptools a good idea to begin with? I managed to get this to work, but it