I recently was trying to port a mix of shell & Python scripts to pure Python (https://github.com/nicktimko/autolycus), and my interim solution to get something working to test was to:
1. include the shell scripts (could also be binaries) in the package & manifest (https://github.com/nicktimko/autolycus/blob/master/MANIFEST.in#L3) 2. use pkg_resources to get where the .sh was so I could run it with subprocess. ( https://github.com/nicktimko/autolycus/blob/master/autolycus/legacy.py) Closer to what you need? On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Nick Timkovich <prometheus...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Usually that entry point is on the PATH […] > > It's not, because I'm deliberately specifying that it shouldn't be, at > install time. This is an executable that is private to the application > and not for general availability on the host. > > > If you want to call that entry point from your code, the clean way > > (same environment/version, and especially if you don't need to bother > > multiprocessing it) would be to import the corresponding entry point > > function & call that. > > I'm modifying an existing application that invokes the program as a > subprocess, so I'm wanting to find that program as an external command. > > > I might not be answering your question directly, but hopefully there's > > a workaround there. What's your use-case for grabbing the exec path? > > Existing code assumes it is an external command on the shell PATH, but > I'm changing that so that it's not on PATH. I need to make a minimal > change and want to ensure that I get the right filesystem path based on > what the distribution knows about itself. > > -- > \ “I like to fill my bathtub up with water, then turn the shower | > `\ on and pretend I'm in a submarine that's been hit.” —Steven | > _o__) Wright | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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