[Distutils] Using an egg like a Java jar file

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:57:28PM +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
> 2009/7/27 mhearne808 <mhearne808 at gmail.com>:
> > My questions:
> >  - Is it possible to embed a script with a "main" entry point in an
> > egg, and run that from the command line?
> >  - If so, how do you pass command line arguments to that main?
> >  - Is this a massive abuse of the intended usage of setuptools?
> 
> In Python 2.6, you can definitely use a zip file like this. See
> http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#command-line
> 
>     python foo.zip arg1 arg2 ...
> 
> foo.zip should contain a __main__.py which is run. sys.argv holds the
> arguments as usual.

On UNIX systems you can even do something like IIRC:

  $ echo '#!/usr/bin/python' > tmp
  $ cat tmp foo.zip > foo
  $ chmod +x foo
  $ ./foo arg1 arg2 ...


Regards
Floris

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