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Woltan
Woltan

Reputation: 14033

Setuptools with entry_points

I would like to install a script with setuptools and have the following setup:

In my development directory there are the files

The z_script.py file looks like this:

def main():
    print "Running..."

while my setup.py looks like this:

from setuptools import setup

setup(
      name = 'z_script', version = '0.2', 
      entry_points = {"console_scripts": ["z_script = z_script:main"]},
      )

When I run python setup.py install the script successfully gets installed into the correct bin directory.

However, when I run the script with z_script an error occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./z_script", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('z-script==0.2', 'console_scripts', 'z_script')()
  File "/home/woltan/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 318, in load_entry_point
  File "/home/woltan/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2221, in load_entry_point
  File "/home/woltan/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1954, in load
ImportError: No module named z_script

The bin directory is accessible through the PATH environment variable from thought the system and no PYTHONPATH environment variable is set when I issue the z_scirpt.

And now to my question:

What is wrong in my setup? Why isn't the script finding the correct module?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3431

Answers (1)

mg.
mg.

Reputation: 8012

You don't instruct setuptools to install the z_script. Use find_packages or list z_script in the py_modules keyword.

...
packages = find_packages(),
...

or

...
py_modules = ['z_script'],
...

Upvotes: 5

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