Best way to run python script globally in Linux? [duplicate]

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so the answer to this question seems to be in the /usr/local/bin folder, which is fine for a single script file but my program has multiple .py files and folders containing HTML files which the program relies on like so:

program
    -templates
        file1.html
        file2.html
    script.py
    class.py
    another_class.py

How would I go about setting this up globally under linux?

Provide a setup.py that installs your package and any scripts that it provides. — jonrsharpe
– jonrsharpe, Commented Jun 23, 2015 at 14:55
@jonrsharpe how is this a duplicate of that answer? I'm not asking how to make setup.py file — twigg
– twigg, Commented Jun 23, 2015 at 15:06
But you want to know how to install your script globally and access the functionality in your package, which can be achieved using a setup.py. If that question doesn't answer yours, please edit to clarify what you still need to know. — jonrsharpe
– jonrsharpe, Commented Jun 23, 2015 at 15:07

Bernhard · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-23 15:08:57Z

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You could put your program to /usr/loca/myprog and then create a symlink from /usr/local/myprog/scrip.py to /usr/loca/bin. This assumes it is script.py you want to be available as an executable globally. Alternatively, create a shell script /usr/local/bin/myprog.sh that invokes your python script.

#!/bin/sh
python /usr/local/myprog/script.py

Of course this is not really a clean solution. The suggestion in the comments to create a distutils package based on setup.py file is much better.

edited Jun 23, 2015 at 15:08

answered Jun 23, 2015 at 14:59

Bernhard

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