[python-committers] [Python-Dev] New workflow change: Welcome to blurb

[Brett Cannon]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 at 09:46 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

> On 06/24/2017 09:40 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> On 6/23/2017 11:24 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
> > You can install blurb from pip:
> >
> >     % pip3.6 install blurb
>
> This does not seem to work right.  On Windows:
>
> C:\Users\Terry>py -3 -m pip install blurb
> Collecting blurb
>   Downloading blurb-1.0-py3-none-any.whl
> Installing collected packages: blurb
> Successfully installed blurb-1.0
>
> Explorer shows that 3.6 site-packages has a 'blurb-1.0.dist-info'
> directory but neither blurb.py nor 'blurb/' is present.  So the following
> are to be expected.
>
> C:\Users\Terry>py -3 -m blurb
> C:\Programs\Python36\python.exe: No module named blurb
>
> > py -3
> >>> import blurb
> ...
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'blurb'
>
> Serhiy reported a similar problem on, I presume, some flavor of Linux.
>
>
> I replied to Serhiy; it's just "blurb", it's a command-line tool, it's not
> a package or a module.  It should be a command on your path.
>
> TBH I don't know if installation of a command-line tool like that works on
> Windows.  The tool itself was ported to Windows by Zach at the PyCon core
> dev sprints last month, though that predates the PyPI work, and in any case
> I could have broken the Windows support since then.  Unfortunately I'm no
> longer a qualified Windows developer, so if it doesn't work on Windows I
> fear someone will have to send me a PR.
>

One of the great perks of `python3 -m blurb` is it avoids needing to care
about your PATH on any platform.

Anyway, the next release of blurb -- whether that's 1.0.0.post1 or a bigger
release -- will have a blurb.py as well as the entry point giving people
the `blurb` command. And people can also use pipsi if they want to install
blurb as more of a self-contained command-line app (at least on UNIX; don't
know about its support on Windows).
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