[Python-Dev] PEP 395: Module Aliasing (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Fri Mar 4 18:35:13 CET 2011

On 04/03/2011 17:07, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Mar 04, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Fred Drake wrote:

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:59 AM,<exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote: Something to consider here is how this will interact with Python files which are not modules. I'm a little uneasy about having sys.modules["trial"] refer to the module defined by /usr/bin/trial. I've long held the position that modules and scripts are distinct, and should never share a source file. All the work that's going into dealing with this just reinforces my position. I agree. In fact, so do the distribution tools. I don't even include actual scripts in my packages any more, I just add the right goo to setup.py and let distutils DTRT:

That (below) is not distutils it is setuptools. distutils just uses scripts=[...], which annoyingly doesn't work with setuptools.

Michael Foord

setup( # ... entrypoints = { 'consolescripts' : list(scripts), }, # ... )

-Barry

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