Merge branch 'main' into feature/distutils-docsfeature/distutils-docs

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/config.py b/setuptools/config.py
index af3a3bcb..4a6cd469 100644
--- a/setuptools/config.py
+++ b/setuptools/config.py
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@ class ConfigOptionsHandler(ConfigHandler):
         parse_list_semicolon = partial(self._parse_list, separator=';')
         parse_bool = self._parse_bool
         parse_dict = self._parse_dict
+        parse_cmdclass = self._parse_cmdclass
 
         return {
             'zip_safe': parse_bool,
@@ -594,6 +595,22 @@ class ConfigOptionsHandler(ConfigHandler):
             'entry_points': self._parse_file,
             'py_modules': parse_list,
             'python_requires': SpecifierSet,
+            'cmdclass': parse_cmdclass,
+        }
+
+    def _parse_cmdclass(self, value):
+        def resolve_class(qualified_class_name):
+            idx = qualified_class_name.rfind('.')
+            class_name = qualified_class_name[idx+1:]
+            pkg_name = qualified_class_name[:idx]
+
+            module = __import__(pkg_name)
+
+            return getattr(module, class_name)
+
+        return {
+            k: resolve_class(v)
+            for k, v in self._parse_dict(value).items()
         }
 
     def _parse_packages(self, value):