Message 140437 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

In distutils docs, I’ve mentioned “setup.py thing” as an alternative to “python setup.py thing” on Windows. For packaging, the situation is different: there is no local script anymore, people will have to invoke the global pysetup command. Would it work if I add a note like this:

In order to run pysetup commands, you need to add the Python Scripts directory to your PATH include link to relevant section of docs.python.org/using.

BTW, do scripts work without file extensions, or does the installer add .py? If it’s the latter, then my doc note will need to mention that too.