Contribution from Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@cs.uni-sb.de>:

the Distutils 'clean' command.

Lib/distutils/command/clean.py

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+"""distutils.command.clean
+
+Implements the Distutils 'clean' command."""
+
+# contributed by Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@cs.uni-sb.de>, added 2000-03-18
+
+__revision__ = "$Id$"
+
+import os
+from distutils.core import Command
+from distutils.util import remove_tree
+
+class clean (Command):
+
+    description = "clean files we built"
+    user_options = [
+        ('build-base=', 'b', "base directory for build library"),
+        ('build-lib=', None,
+         "build directory for all distribution (defaults to either " +
+         "build-purelib or build-platlib"),
+        ('build-temp=', 't', "temporary build directory"),
+        ('all', 'a',
+         "remove all build output, not just temporary by-products")
+    ]
+
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        self.build_base = None
+        self.build_lib = None
+        self.build_temp = None
+        self.all = None
+
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        self.set_undefined_options('build',
+	    ('build_base', 'build_base'),
+	    ('build_lib', 'build_lib'),
+	    ('build_temp', 'build_temp'))
+
+    def run(self):
+        # remove the build/temp.<plat> directory
+        remove_tree (self.build_temp, self.verbose, self.dry_run)
+
+        if self.all:
+            # remove the build/lib resp. build/platlib directory
+            remove_tree (self.build_lib, self.verbose, self.dry_run)