[Distutils] 'Invalid module name' creating package with setuptools

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:28:09AM -0400, Luí­s de Sousa via Distutils-SIG wrote:
> I have a project with these contents:
> 
> proj
> ├── proj
> │ ├── scriptA.py
> │ ├── scriptB.py
> │ └── __init__.py
> ├── LICENCE
> ├── README.md
> └── setup.py
> 
> The setup.py file looks like:
...
> entry_points={
> 'console_scripts': [
> 'scriptA=proj:scriptA',
> 'scriptB=proj:scriptB'

I'm not sure this is right -- an entry point should point to a python
module (not a package) and a function in that module, so something like

  'scriptA=proj.scriptA:main',
  'scriptB=proj.scriptB:main',

I've never tried to define entry points pointing to functions defined in
the __init__.py of a package, so I don't know if you're allowed to write

  scriptX=proj:fn

or if you have to explicitly say

  scriptX=proj.__init__:fn

> When I try to build I get the following error:
> 
> $ python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
> error in proj setup command: ('Invalid module name', 'proj')

(That is not a good error message indeed.)

Marius Gedminas
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