import os,sys,shutil repo = "http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/branches/0.7.3" basename = 'ipython' workdir = './mkdist' workdir = os.path.abspath(workdir) print "working at",workdir def oscmd(c): print ">",c s = os.system(c) if s: print "Error",s sys.exit(s) assert not os.path.isdir(workdir) os.mkdir(workdir) os.chdir(workdir) oscmd('svn export %s %s' % (repo,basename)) ver = os.popen('svnversion ../..').read().strip() tarname = '%s.r%s.tgz' % (basename, ver) oscmd('tar czvf ../%s %s' % (tarname, basename)) print "Produced: ",os.path.abspath('../' + tarname) os.chdir('/') shutil.rmtree(workdir)