47     to the Distutils commands specified on the command line.
59     # supplied to the setup script prior to any actual commands.
63     # don't want to pollute the commands with too many options that they
78 Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)
84     # options that are not propagated to the commands
86         ('help-commands', None,
87          "list all available commands"),
170         # 'command_packages' is a list of packages in which commands
192         # have been created by any dist commands run so far. This is
202         # These options are really the business of various commands, rather
305     def dump_option_dicts(self, header=None, commands=None, indent=""):  argument
308         if commands is None:             # dump all command option dicts
309             commands = sorted(self.command_options.keys())
315         if not commands:
316             self.announce(indent + "no commands known yet")
319         for cmd_name in commands:
444         instance.  Then, it is alternately scanned for Distutils commands
451         command-line raises DistutilsArgError.  If no Distutils commands
454         on with executing commands; false if no errors but we shouldn't
455         execute commands (currently, this only happens if user asks for
471         self.commands = []
495                             display_options=len(self.commands) == 0,
496                             commands=self.commands)
499         # Oops, no commands found -- an end-user error
500         if not self.commands:
501             raise DistutilsArgError("no commands supplied")
510         level as well as options recognized for commands.
514              "list of packages that provide distutils commands"),
523         list if there are no more commands on the command line.  Returns
533         self.commands.append(command)
572         # All commands support the global options too, just by adding
580             self._show_help(parser, display_options=0, commands=[cmd_class])
622                    commands=[]):  argument
633         in 'commands'.
652                 "information, ignore any commands)")
655         for command in self.commands:
673         (--help-commands or the metadata display options) on the command
679         # User just wants a list of commands -- we'll print it out and stop
680         # processing now (ie. if they ran "setup --help-commands foo bar",
711     def print_command_list(self, commands, header, max_length):  argument
712         """Print a subset of the list of all commands -- used by
717         for cmd in commands:
729         """Print out a help message listing all available commands with a
730         description of each.  The list is divided into "standard commands"
731         (listed in distutils.command.__all__) and "extra commands"
753                                 "Standard commands",
758                                     "Extra commands",
763         The list is divided into "standard commands" (listed in
764         distutils.command.__all__) and "extra commands" (mentioned in
796         """Return a list of packages from which commands are loaded."""
928         sub-commands, as declared by the 'sub_commands' class attribute (if
930         reinitializes the sub-commands that actually matter, ie. those
962         Uses the list of commands found and cache of command objects
965         for cmd in self.commands:
968     # -- Methods that operate on its Commands --------------------------