Minor improvement to extensions section in setup.cfg.
The right-hand part in [extension: foo] is now used as the name of the
extension module. (I changed the separator from = to : and allowed
whitespace to make the sections look nicer.)
diff --git a/Lib/packaging/config.py b/Lib/packaging/config.py
index 83e97a9..b138d08 100644
--- a/Lib/packaging/config.py
+++ b/Lib/packaging/config.py
@@ -251,13 +251,16 @@
ext_modules = self.dist.ext_modules
for section_key in content:
- labels = section_key.split('=')
+ # no str.partition in 2.4 :(
+ labels = section_key.split(':')
if len(labels) == 2 and labels[0] == 'extension':
- # labels[1] not used from now but should be implemented
- # for extension build dependency
values_dct = content[section_key]
+ if 'name' in values_dct:
+ raise PackagingOptionError(
+ 'extension name should be given as [extension: name], '
+ 'not as key')
ext_modules.append(Extension(
- values_dct.pop('name'),
+ labels[1].strip(),
_pop_values(values_dct, 'sources'),
_pop_values(values_dct, 'include_dirs'),
_pop_values(values_dct, 'define_macros'),