Make sys.argv an argument of keywords_with_side_effects()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7465c31..b0ad2db 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -140,10 +140,13 @@
sys.exit(errno)
-def keywords_with_side_effects():
+def keywords_with_side_effects(argv):
"""
Get a dictionary with setup keywords that (can) have side effects.
+ :param argv: A list of strings with command line arguments.
+ :returns: A dictionary with keyword arguments for the ``setup()`` function.
+
This setup.py script uses the setuptools 'setup_requires' feature because
this is required by the cffi package to compile extension modules. The
purpose of ``keywords_with_side_effects()`` is to avoid triggering the cffi
@@ -161,8 +164,8 @@
.. _pip issue #25: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/25
.. _setup.py script of SciPy: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/setup.py
"""
- if len(sys.argv) >= 2 and ('--help' in sys.argv[1:] or
- sys.argv[1] in ('--help-commands', '--version', 'clean', 'egg_info')):
+ if len(argv) >= 2 and ('--help' in argv[1:] or
+ argv[1] in ('--help-commands', '--version', 'clean', 'egg_info')):
return {}
else:
return dict(setup_requires=requirements,
@@ -221,5 +224,5 @@
entry_points={
"cryptography.backends": backends,
},
- **keywords_with_side_effects()
+ **keywords_with_side_effects(sys.argv)
)