distutils: How to pass a user defined parameter to setup.py?

Question

Please prompt me how to pass a user-defined parameter both from the command line and setup.cfg configuration file to distutils\' setup.py script. I want to write a setup.py

Answer 1

I successfully used a workaround to use a solution similar to totaam's suggestion. I ended up popping my extra arguments from the sys.argv list:

import sys
from distutils.core import setup
foo = 0
if '--foo' in sys.argv:
    index = sys.argv.index('--foo')
    sys.argv.pop(index)  # Removes the '--foo'
    foo = sys.argv.pop(index)  # Returns the element after the '--foo'
# The foo is now ready to use for the setup
setup(...)

Some extra validation could be added to ensure the inputs are good, but this is how I did it