Question

I have a Python package that includes a few scripts in a scripts/ folder. My setup.py file includes::

#!/usr/bin/env python

from distutils.core import setup

scripts = ['script1', 'script2', 'script3']

setup(name='Test',
      version='0.1.0',
      packages=['test'],
      scripts=['scripts/' + x for x in scripts]
     )

Each script contains the line::

#!/usr/bin/env python

at the top. However, when I run python setup.py install this line gets changed to::

#!/usr/bin/python

automatically in the installed scripts. Is there a way to avoid this? The reason that this is a problem for me is because I am using virtualenv, and so the correct path for the Python executable should be::

#/Users/user/.virtualenvs/default/bin/python

so I’d rather it left the interpreter set to::

#!/usr/bin/env python

Thanks for any advice!

Answer 1

The install scripts checks, where the python is installed and changes this python to the proper one. It does it on every machine, where your package is installed.

From docs:

Scripts are files containing Python
source code, intended to be started
from the command line. Scripts don’t
require Distutils to do anything very
complicated. The only clever feature
is that if the first line of the
script starts with #! and contains the
word “python”, the Distutils will
adjust the first line to refer to the
current interpreter location. By
default, it is replaced with the
current interpreter location. The
–executable (or -e) option will allow the interpreter path to be
explicitly overridden.