Added 'debug_print()' method (driven by DEBUG global from distutils.core).
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
index 9f63f83..c9b5624 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
@@ -172,6 +172,15 @@
if self.verbose >= level:
print msg
+ def debug_print (self, msg):
+ """Print 'msg' to stdout if the global DEBUG (taken from the
+ DISTUTILS_DEBUG environment variable) flag is true.
+ """
+ from distutils.core import DEBUG
+ if DEBUG:
+ print msg
+
+
# -- Option validation methods -------------------------------------
# (these are very handy in writing the 'finalize_options()' method)