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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 08:31:48 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Oktaka Com <oktakaweb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Installing a script and use it via python -m
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On 07Jan2012 10:32, Oktaka Com <oktakaweb@gmail.com> wrote:
| Is there a way to do below:
| 
| 1) install via setup.py some script: xxx.py
| 2) python -m xxx.py
| 
| In fact, this question opens to: Is there a platform independent way
| to copy xxx.py to somewhere that the system will search for?

Depends what's in your $PYTHONPATH I think, but setup.py has an "install
for user" option. Use that, then plain old python -m xxx (note: no .py
here - it is the module name, not the file pathname).

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> DoD#743
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