old_contents: # Copyright 2016-2017 The Meson development team
  
  # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  # You may obtain a copy of the License at
  
  #     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  
  # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  # limitations under the License.
  
  import sys
  import sysconfig
  from .. import mesonlib, dependencies
  
  from . import ExtensionModule
  from mesonbuild.modules import ModuleReturnValue
  
  
  class Python3Module(ExtensionModule):
      def __init__(self):
          super().__init__()
          self.snippets.add('extension_module')
  
      def extension_module(self, interpreter, state, args, kwargs):
          if 'name_prefix' in kwargs:
              raise mesonlib.MesonException('Name_prefix is set automatically, specifying it is forbidden.')
          if 'name_suffix' in kwargs:
              raise mesonlib.MesonException('Name_suffix is set automatically, specifying it is forbidden.')
          host_system = state.host_machine.system
          if host_system == 'darwin':
              # Default suffix is 'dylib' but Python does not use it for extensions.
              suffix = 'so'
          elif host_system == 'windows':
              # On Windows the extension is pyd for some unexplainable reason.
              suffix = 'pyd'
          else:
              suffix = []
          kwargs['name_prefix'] = ''
          kwargs['name_suffix'] = suffix
          return interpreter.func_shared_module(None, args, kwargs)
  
      def find_python(self, state, args, kwargs):
          py3 = dependencies.ExternalProgram('python3', sys.executable, silent=True)
          return ModuleReturnValue(py3, [py3])
  
      def language_version(self, state, args, kwargs):
          if args or kwargs:
              raise mesonlib.MesonException('language_version() takes no arguments.')
          return ModuleReturnValue(sysconfig.get_python_version(), [])
  
  
  def initialize():
      return Python3Module()
  
new_contents: # Copyright 2016-2017 The Meson development team
  
  # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  # You may obtain a copy of the License at
  
  #     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  
  # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  # limitations under the License.
  
  import sys
  import sysconfig
  from .. import mesonlib, dependencies
  
  from . import ExtensionModule
  from mesonbuild.modules import ModuleReturnValue
  
  
  class Python3Module(ExtensionModule):
      def __init__(self):
          super().__init__()
          self.snippets.add('extension_module')
  
      def extension_module(self, interpreter, state, args, kwargs):
          if 'name_prefix' in kwargs:
              raise mesonlib.MesonException('Name_prefix is set automatically, specifying it is forbidden.')
          if 'name_suffix' in kwargs:
              raise mesonlib.MesonException('Name_suffix is set automatically, specifying it is forbidden.')
          host_system = state.host_machine.system
          if host_system == 'darwin':
              # Default suffix is 'dylib' but Python does not use it for extensions.
              suffix = 'so'
          elif host_system == 'windows':
              # On Windows the extension is pyd for some unexplainable reason.
              suffix = 'pyd'
          else:
              suffix = []
          kwargs['name_prefix'] = ''
          kwargs['name_suffix'] = suffix
          return interpreter.func_shared_module(None, args, kwargs)
  
      def find_python(self, state, args, kwargs):
          py3 = dependencies.ExternalProgram('python3', sys.executable, silent=True)
          return ModuleReturnValue(py3, [py3])
  
      def language_version(self, state, args, kwargs):
          if args or kwargs:
              raise mesonlib.MesonException('language_version() takes no arguments.')
          return ModuleReturnValue(sysconfig.get_python_version(), [])
  
      def sysconfig_path(self, state, args, kwargs):
          if len(args) != 1:
              raise mesonlib.MesonException('sysconfig_path() requires passing the name of path to get.')
          if kwargs:
              raise mesonlib.MesonException('sysconfig_path() does not accept keywords.')
          path_name = args[0]
          valid_names = sysconfig.get_path_names()
          if path_name not in valid_names:
              raise mesonlib.MesonException('{} is not a valid path name {}.'.format(path_name, valid_names))
  
          # Get a relative path without a prefix, e.g. lib/python3.6/site-packages
          path = sysconfig.get_path(path_name, vars={'base': ''})[1:]
          return ModuleReturnValue(path, [])
  
  
  def initialize():
      return Python3Module()
  
subject: Add sysconfig_path() method