[Tutor] Pypi entry points

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi,

I am reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to Packaging 1.0 documentation, specifically http://guide.python-distribute.org/creation.html. I am struggling to understand the section about Entry Points. This appears to be a way to include extra functionality in a program, without the need to actually include it in the tar.gz file. Or, as the website says: "[A] pretty easy and simple way to allow other packages to register something
that you want to know. Extra plugins, extra render methods, extra functionality
you want to register in your web application, etcetera." I find the code examples hard to understand. I'd expect that it'd be steps like "in the middle of the setup, download and unzip file xxxx.zip from website http://blaaah.eu. How does this work?

 
Regards,
Albert-Jan


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