Difference between entry_points/console_scripts and scripts in setup.py?

Question

There are basically two ways to install Python console scripts to my path by setup.py:

setup(
    ...
    entry_points = {
        \'console_scr         


        

Answer 1

The docs for the (awesome) Click package suggest a few reasons to use entry points instead of scripts, including

1. cross-platform compatibility and
2. avoiding having the interpreter assign __name__ to __main__, which could cause code to be imported twice (if another module imports your script)

Click is a nice way to implement functions for use as entry_points, btw.