From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:54:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Allow unknown keyword arguments to the Extension class, and warn about them.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~3441
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f1c9a916f87cb35cbf9a164dc6e84606e97e48c;p=python

Allow unknown keyword arguments to the Extension class, and warn about them.
---

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/extension.py b/Lib/distutils/extension.py
index 7fbeb4e1f1..9dc316a1a5 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/extension.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/extension.py
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ __revision__ = "$Id$"
 import os, string
 from types import *
 
+try:
+    import warnings
+except ImportError:
+    warnings = None
 
 # This class is really only used by the "build_ext" command, so it might
 # make sense to put it in distutils.command.build_ext.  However, that
@@ -93,8 +97,8 @@ class Extension:
                   export_symbols=None,
                   depends=None,
                   language=None,
+                  **kw                      # To catch unknown keywords
                  ):
-
         assert type(name) is StringType, "'name' must be a string"
         assert (type(sources) is ListType and
                 map(type, sources) == [StringType]*len(sources)), \
@@ -115,6 +119,15 @@ class Extension:
         self.depends = depends or []
         self.language = language
 
+        # If there are unknown keyword options, warn about them
+        if len(kw):
+            L = kw.keys() ; L.sort()
+            L = map(repr, L)
+            msg = "Unknown Extension options: " + string.join(L, ', ')
+            if warnings is not None:
+                warnings.warn(msg)
+            else:
+                sys.stderr.write(msg + '\n')
 # class Extension