#!/usr/bin/env python3 # # Determine info about the Python install and write shell code to stdout, to # set env variables. This will set the variables PY_LDFLAGS, PY_CFLAGS and # PY_INC_PATH. # # The python3-config tool is used as the source of this info. In theory we # could use sysconfig as well but the setup-python action from github appears # to patch python3-config but not patch the sysconfig info. # # Usage: # eval $(python3 get-py-env.py) import os import re import subprocess def get_output(cmd): rv = subprocess.run( cmd, capture_output=True, # Capture stdout and stderr text=True, # Decode output as text (UTF-8) check=True, # Raise an error if the command fails ) return rv.stdout def extract_flags(cmd, prefix): flags = [] for part in get_output(cmd).split(): part = part.strip() if part.startswith(prefix): flags.append(part) return ' '.join(flags) def find_python_h(): """Find the include path that has Python.h contained inside. We could use INCLUDEPY from sysconfig but github patches python3-config but not the sysconfig info (after moving the install). """ c_flags = extract_flags(['python3-config', '--cflags'], '-I') for part in c_flags.split(): m = re.search(r'-I(\S+)', part) if not m: continue inc_path = m.group(1) if os.path.exists(os.path.join(inc_path, 'Python.h')): return inc_path raise SystemExit('cannot find Python.h') def main(): ld_flags = extract_flags(['python3-config', '--ldflags'], '-L') c_flags = extract_flags(['python3-config', '--cflags'], '-I') include_path = find_python_h() print(f'PY_LDFLAGS="{ld_flags}"') print(f'PY_CFLAGS="{c_flags}"') print(f'PY_INC_PATH="{include_path}"') if __name__ == '__main__': main()