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Fri Mar 4 18:35:13 CET 2011 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/108666.html

On 04/03/2011 17:07, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Mar 04, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Fred Drake wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:59 AM,<exarkun at twistedmatrix.com>  wrote:
>>> Something to consider here is how this will interact with Python files which
>>> are _not_ modules.  I'm a little uneasy about having sys.modules["trial"]
>>> refer to the module defined by /usr/bin/trial.
>> I've long held the position that modules and scripts are distinct, and
>> should never share a source file.  All the work that's going into
>> dealing with this just reinforces my position.
> I agree.  In fact, so do the distribution tools.  I don't even include actual
> scripts in my packages any more, I just add the right goo to setup.py and let
> distutils DTRT:
>
>

That (below) is not distutils it is setuptools. distutils just uses 
`scripts=[...]`, which annoyingly *doesn't* work with setuptools.

Michael Foord

> setup(
>      # ...
>      entry_points    = {
>          'console_scripts' : list(scripts),
>          },
>      # ...
>      )
>
> -Barry
>
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[Python-Dev] PEP 395: Module Aliasing