How to start a python application after installation with setup.py?

Question

I am installing a package using python2 setup.py install . This package is a tkinter application which contains traditional

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

I tried running python2 -m my_app or python2 -m my_app.__main__ and python2 -c "import my_app" but I either get an error or nothing happens.

I can run it ./my_app.py from console.

How can I run my python application after installation with setup.py ?

Answer 1

Import module with main function and call it

python -c "from some_module import main; main()"

but mostly modules/apps, simply expose bin/scripts, look in bin dir of your virtualenv or setup.py .

More info about how to expose (scripts, entry_points):

• http://python-packaging.readthedocs.org/en/latest/command-line-scripts.html
• https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#automatic-script-creation