setup.py and adding file to /bin/

Question

I can\'t figure out how to make setup.py add a scrip to the the user\'s /bin or /usr/bin or whatever.

E.g., I\'d like to add a

Answer 1

There are two ways in order to get a working command line tool from setuptools and PyPI infrastructure:

1. The "scripts" Keyword Argument
   This allows the command-line execution of everything you want, it can be a Python script, a shell script or something completely different.
2. The "console_scripts" Entry Point
   This allows Python functions (not scripts!) to be directly registered as command-line accessible tools.