Call your own pip-install package from command line

Question

Not sure how to phrase this question, but what i want is similar to what azure-cli does:

• You install the package (pip install azure-cli)
• The installation is done
• Afterwards, the az utility is available at the command line. You can use az configure and not something like python az configure.

How can you incorporate this in your own package?

Answer 1

To achieve that you can add entrypoints argument to your setup.py call:

entrypoints={'console_scripts': ['az = my_package.some_module:main_func']}

See also the setuptools documentation.