On 12/16/2011 04:10 PM, PJ Eby wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote:
Another question, suppose that I have something like

dev_main -a myapplication

where myapplication is a certain path.
Would it be possible to create a console_script setting in the entry points, that
passes that option to dev_main automatically?

It would be quite nice to get executables out of the box, that under the hood
run the development version..

I don't know what 'dev_main' is, but if you're asking, "can I have an .exe that runs my development code?", then the answer is yes.  Use "setup.py develop".  It will install script .exe's and stub .py files to the target directory, but the actual code that's run by the .exe  will be your original source code.  Any changes you make to the source will take effect the next time you run that exe.


Yes yes I knew this, the real question was more if I can pass something to the entry
point function in the console_scripts.
The simple way would be to simply create another module which calls the dev_main
with the right parameter, and use that as an entry point.

But in general it looks like it's not possible to pass arguments, right?