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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/distutils/dist.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/dist.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py index 9eb2aa4..4f4bae5 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py @@ -59,6 +59,15 @@ class Distribution: ('help', 'h', "show detailed help message"), ] + # 'common_usage' is a short (2-3 line) string describing the common + # usage of the setup script. + common_usage = """\ +Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more) + + setup.py build will build the package underneath 'build/' + setup.py install will install the package +""" + # options that are not propagated to the commands display_options = [ ('help-commands', None, @@ -608,7 +617,7 @@ class Distribution: else: options = self.global_options parser.set_option_table(options) - parser.print_help("Global options:") + parser.print_help(self.common_usage + "\nGlobal options:") print if display_options: |