Project:Python/python-utils-r1

python-utils-r1 provides all the common utility functions that are used within all of -r1 suite eclasses. This eclass is seldom (if ever) inherited directly. Instead, its API is exposed via other eclasses.

Introductory information
Python build environment describes the environment setup that is necessary to properly build packages against specific version of Python, or run Python scripts using it. Python build environment consists of a number of environment variables and often a helper directories.

The most minimal Python build environment is established through EPYTHON variable.

Implicit build environment
The Python build environment is initialized implicitly by many other eclasses. The functions which establish it and list of enabled variables are listed in the following table.