def get_command_list(self):
        """Get a list of (command, description) tuples.
        The list is divided into "standard commands" (listed in
        distutils.command.__all__) and "extra commands" (mentioned in
        self.cmdclass, but not a standard command).  The descriptions come
        from the command class attribute 'description'.
        """
        # Currently this is only used on Mac OS, for the Mac-only GUI
        # Distutils interface (by Jack Jansen)
        import distutils.command

        std_commands = distutils.command.__all__
        is_std = {}
        for cmd in std_commands:
            is_std[cmd] = 1

        extra_commands = []
        for cmd in self.cmdclass.keys():
            if not is_std.get(cmd):
                extra_commands.append(cmd)

        rv = []
        for cmd in std_commands + extra_commands:
            klass = self.cmdclass.get(cmd)
            if not klass:
                klass = self.get_command_class(cmd)
            try:
                description = klass.description
            except AttributeError:
                description = "(no description available)"
            rv.append((cmd, description))
        return rv
Get a list of (command, description) tuples.
        The list is divided into "standard commands" (listed in
        distutils.command.__all__) and "extra commands" (mentioned in
        self.cmdclass, but not a standard command).  The descriptions come
        from the command class attribute 'description'.
        
product/gradle-plugin/src/main/python/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py