[Distutils] executable egg & top-level __main__.py

[Alex Clark]

On 6/18/15 4:46 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the following directory structure:
>
> myegg/
>      pkg1/
>          __init__.py
>          ...
>      pkg2/
>          __init__.py
>          ...
>      pkg3/
>          __init__.py
>          ...
>      setup.py
>      __main__.py
>
> If I zip this into myegg.egg and run "python myegg.egg", that runs the
> top-level __main__.py. If I run "python setup.py bdist_egg" and run the
> resulting egg, I get "/usr/bin/python: can't find '__main__.py'" in the
> egg. That is correct: according to "unzip -l" __main__.py is not there.
>
> How do I get it included?
>
> Or more to the point, how do I make that egg directly executable? --
> note that I want it to run a script that isn't in any of the bundled
> packages (but imports from them).
>
> (centos 6 with python 2.6 and python-setuptools-0.6.10 and centos 7 with
> python 2.7 and python-setuptools-0.9.8)


Probably can't answer that without seeing setup.py where there should at 
least be ``packages = find_packages()``. Also sounds like you may be 
looking for console_scripts.


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