At 10:00 PM 9/16/2005 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >On 9/16/05, Trent Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only missing piece so far, for me at least, is that it's not > > > possible to use dotted module names with the -m option: > > > > > > p24 -m ctypes.wrap.h2xml windows.h > > > > That's too bad. I didn't know "-m" didn't support that... but then I > > haven't really used it that much yet. > >There's a patch on SF to implement that (1043356 ) and a corresponding >PEP (338), but I don't know what's required to get it added. > >Another annoyance with -m is that it doesn't support modules in >zipfiles (e.g., zipped eggs).
Really, the only reasonable way to solve both problems is something like 'python -m run foo.bar ....'. That is, have a bootstrap module to do the rest. (Or alternately, have -m fallback to using the bootstrap module if it's unsuccessful.) However, after reflection, I think now that -m probably only really makes sense for stdlib modules, since projects using setuptools can now get all the benefits of -m without any of the drawbacks, without even writing any __name__=='__main__' code. For example defining an entry point thus: [console_scripts] h2xml = ctypes.wrap.h2xml:main automatically creates 'h2xml.exe' on Windows and a #!-prefixed 'h2xml' script on any other platform. (Using the current CVS version of setuptools, that is.) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig