Fallback to generating files if not generated
Even if GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_WITH_CYTHON is not specified, if the files are
not present then we will fall back to generating with Cython. This
relegates GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_WITH_CYTHON to providing a regeneration
option rather than being a necessary build environment variable.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d9c46ba..2eeb37d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@
# Environment variable to determine whether or not the Cython extension should
# *use* Cython or use the generated C files. Note that this requires the C files
-# to have been generated by building first *with* Cython support.
+# to have been generated by building first *with* Cython support. Even if this
+# is set to false, if the script detects that the generated `.c` file isn't
+# present, then it will still attempt to use Cython.
BUILD_WITH_CYTHON = os.environ.get('GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_WITH_CYTHON', False)
# Environment variable to determine whether or not to enable coverage analysis
@@ -129,10 +131,20 @@
if ENABLE_CYTHON_TRACING:
define_macros = define_macros + [('CYTHON_TRACE_NOGIL', 1)]
cython_compiler_directives['linetrace'] = True
- file_extension = 'pyx' if build_with_cython else 'c'
- module_files = [os.path.join(PYTHON_STEM,
- name.replace('.', '/') + '.' + file_extension)
- for name in module_names]
+ pyx_module_files = [os.path.join(PYTHON_STEM,
+ name.replace('.', '/') + '.pyx')
+ for name in module_names]
+ c_module_files = [os.path.join(PYTHON_STEM,
+ name.replace('.', '/') + '.c')
+ for name in module_names]
+ if not build_with_cython:
+ for module_file in c_module_files:
+ if not os.path.isfile(module_file):
+ sys.stderr.write('Cython-generated files are missing; '
+ 'forcing Cython build...\n')
+ build_with_cython = True
+ break
+ module_files = pyx_module_files if build_with_cython else c_module_files
extensions = [
_extension.Extension(
name=module_name,