On Mar 04, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Fred Drake wrote: >On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:59 AM, <exar...@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: setup( # ... entry_points = { 'console_scripts' : list(scripts), }, # ... ) -Barry
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