From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 15:12:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Use 'ensure_string_list()' for 'formats' option, so that it can be
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~1580
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=62d5a57b056dd5a7d11e5fc19de3cdcf42c3a30e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Use 'ensure_string_list()' for 'formats' option, so that it can be
spelled sensibly in a config file.
---

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
index 03de85b1aee3..af88eba07a57 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ class sdist (Command):
         if self.template is None:
             self.template = "MANIFEST.in"
 
+        self.ensure_string_list('formats')
         if self.formats is None:
             try:
                 self.formats = [self.default_format[os.name]]
@@ -80,8 +81,6 @@ class sdist (Command):
                 raise DistutilsPlatformError, \
                       "don't know how to create source distributions " + \
                       "on platform %s" % os.name
-        elif type (self.formats) is StringType:
-            self.formats = string.split (self.formats, ',')
 
         bad_format = check_archive_formats (self.formats)
         if bad_format: