While trying to purge distutils from my projects, there’s just one thing that I haven’t found a suitable alternative for:
def test_longdouble_precision_improved():
# Just check that this can only be True on windows, msvc
from distutils.ccompiler import get_default_compiler
if not (os.name == 'nt' and get_default_compiler() == 'msvc'):
assert not longdouble_precision_improved()
It’s not terribly important, but the context is a function that detects weird behavior on MSVC, but we want to verify it is never encountered in other environments.
Is there a recommendation of how to do this that will survive the final removal of distutils?