Changed so all the help-generating functions are defined, at module-level,

in the module of the command classes that have command-specific
help options.  This lets us keep the principle of lazily importing
the ccompiler module, and also gets away from defining non-methods
at class level.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_clib.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_clib.py
index 9a82ac09174..7106882d792 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_clib.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_clib.py
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@ import os, string
 from types import *
 from distutils.core import Command
 from distutils.errors import *
-from distutils.ccompiler import new_compiler,show_compilers
+
+
+def show_compilers ():
+    from distutils.ccompiler import show_compilers
+    show_compilers()
 
 
 class build_clib (Command):
@@ -102,6 +106,7 @@ class build_clib (Command):
             return
 
         # Yech -- this is cut 'n pasted from build_ext.py!
+        from distutils.ccompiler import new_compiler
         self.compiler = new_compiler (compiler=self.compiler,
                                       verbose=self.verbose,
                                       dry_run=self.dry_run,