Issue #19544 and Issue #1180: Restore global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils, accidentally removed in backout of distutils2 changes.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/core.py b/Lib/distutils/core.py
index 91e5132934..c811d5bd9c 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/core.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/core.py
@@ -128,8 +128,9 @@ def setup (**attrs):
     if _setup_stop_after == "config":
         return dist
 
-    # Parse the command line; any command-line errors are the end user's
-    # fault, so turn them into SystemExit to suppress tracebacks.
+    # Parse the command line and override config files; any
+    # command-line errors are the end user's fault, so turn them into
+    # SystemExit to suppress tracebacks.
     try:
         ok = dist.parse_command_line()
     except DistutilsArgError as msg: