[Docs] distutils.command.clean → ?

[rinarakaki]

Summary

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/deprecated/distutils-legacy.html

I was reading the setuptools documentation and couldn’t find the mapping of distutils’ clean command to the setuptools equivalent.

I know that setuptools to some extent cleanup the build output after each build process but want it to clearly state that if we can already don’t have to mind the cleanup process, or how to maintain the same behaviours with setuptools for those trying to migrate from distutils.

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[abravalheri]

For the time being there is no equivalent.
Setuptools long term plan (so far) is to not provide any CLI tool, just API.

If you use python -m build to build your project, I believe no binary files from extensions are produced by the build in the CWD, so you can easily cleanup by doing:

rm -rf dist *.egg-info

(If you use the src-layout replace *.egg-info with src/*.egg-info in the previous command).