[Python-Dev] PEP 395: Module Aliasing

[Barry Warsaw]

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:


setup(
    # ...
    entry_points    = {
        'console_scripts' : list(scripts),
        },
    # ...
    )

-Barry
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