Would it interfere in any way with the building of a distributable if I were to import additional modules into a “setup.py” file?
I’m contemplating adding a build-duration print-out to my setup-process, via importing and using “datetime” in my “setup.py” files. A quick experiment seems to indicate that it works–but I want to check that it doesn’t have some non-obvious untoward effect (such as interfering with module-freezing, or some such thing).
To be clear, what I have in mind is a “setup.py” that looks something like this:
from setuptools import setup
from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
setup(
# Options as usual here...
)
duration = datetime.now() - now
print ("\n\nBuild completed in:", duration)
