Distribute Executable Module

I developed a program consisting of a package which is executable (i.e. two files x/__init__.py and x/__main__.py), so I can execute it using python -m x, if the package resides i

Solution 1:

1. Use either distribute or setuptools, the former is a fork of the latter, with some improvements and better documentation. Either one is a big step up from distutils, which is part of the python standard library.

2. You want a console script, for which you define an entry point:

   entry_points = {
       'console_scripts': [
           'foo = my_package.some_module:main_func',
           'bar = other_module:some_func',
       ],
   

   where foo and bar would be scripts that you can call on the command line. The indicated function will be called with sys.argv[1:] as the first and only argument.

3. Let the installation tools take care of that; it works fine on Windows. :-)