How to install Python script on Windows?

Question

I wrote a small command-line utility in Python. I also created setup.py script:

try:
    from setuptools import setup
except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup

config = {
    'name': 'clitool',
    'author': 'aa',
    'author_email': 'ww',
    'version': '1.0-rc',
    'install_requires': ['nose'],
    'packages': [],
    'scripts': ['clitool']
}

setup(**config)

When I call:

setup.py install

my script copied to C:\Python34\Scripts path. This path is in the PATH variable, but Windows when I try to start my clitool from some direcory writes:

"clitool" not recognized as an internal or external command

It's possible to run from any directory, only the files from C:\Python34\Scripts with the exe extension.
But my script is copied as a file without extension and in Windows it does not run it.

Are you running this from Windows Explorer or cmd.exe? Have you tried clitool.py? It should have a .py extension (although there are others) — cdarke
– cdarke, Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 9:47
@cdarke, clitool.py is works, but I wanted to write so that the utility can be called without .py extension — Valeriy
– Valeriy, Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 9:52
Why? On Windows (unlike UNIX/Linux/OS X) the shell (Windows Explorer, cmd.exe, powershell) cannot tell which type a file is unless you set its file extension. The shell uses that as a lookup into the Windows registry to discover which program should be run. There is a default, but you would have to write a .cmd file to run your python. Is that what you want? — cdarke
– cdarke, Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 9:56
No, I wanted to understand how utilities like django-admin works — Valeriy
– Valeriy, Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 10:00

Valeriy · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-17 20:51:41Z

5

Solution:

try:
    from setuptools import setup
except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup

config = {
    'name': 'clitool',
    'author': 'aa',
    'author_email': 'ww',
    'version': '1.0-rc',
    'install_requires': ['nose'],
    'packages': [],    
    'entry_points' : {
        'console_scripts': ['clitool=clitool.cli:main'],
    }
}

setup(**config)

answered Feb 17, 2016 at 20:51

Valeriy

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