How can I use setuptools to generate a console_scripts entry point which calls `python -m mypackage`?

Question

I am trying to be a good Pythonista and following PEP 338 for my package I plan on deploying.

I am also trying to generate my executable scripts upon python setuptools install using setuptools entry_points{'console_scripts': ... } options.

How can I use entry_points to generate a binary that calls python -m mypackage (and passes *args, **kwargs) ?

Here are a few attempts I have made with no success:

setuptools( ... 

(1)

entry_points=        {'console_scripts': ['mypkg=mypkg.__main__'],}, 

(2)

entry_points=        {'console_scripts': ['mypkg=mypkg.main'],}, 

(3)

entry_points=        {'console_scripts': ['mypkg=python -m mypkg'],}, 

Primary resources I have been using:

• http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#automatic-script-creation
• https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0338/
• http://www.scotttorborg.com/python-packaging/command-line-scripts.html
• http://blog.habnab.it/blog/2013/07/21/python-packages-and-you/

Answer 1

How can I use entry_points to generate a binary that calls python -m mypackage (and passes *args, **kwargs) ?

I think this is the wrong way to look at the problem. You don't want your script to call python -m mypackage, but you want the script to have the same entry point as python -m mypackage

Consider this simple example:

script_proj/ ├── script_proj │   ├── __init__.py │   └── __main__.py └── setup.py 

and the minimalistic setup.py:

from setuptools import setup  setup(     name="script_proj",     packages=["script_proj"],     entry_points = {         "console_scripts": [             "myscript = script_proj.__main__:main",         ]     } ) 

__main__.py is a dummy module and contains the main method.

def main():     print("Hello world!")  if __name__ == "__main__":     main() 

After installing, you have the executable myscript, which calls the main method in __main__.py. In this package design python -m script_proj also calls the same main method.