理解console scripts entry point in Python

Entry points are a mechanism for an installed distribution to advertise components it provides to be discovered and used by other code.

Conceptually, an entry point is defined by three required properties:

1. The group that an entry point belongs to indicates that sort of object it provides.
2. The name identifies this entry point within its group.
3. The object reference points to a Python object.

An “entry point” is typically a function (or other callable function-like object) that a developer or user of your Python package might want to use, though a non-callable object can be supplied as an entry point as well.

The most popular kind of entry point is the console_scripts entry point, which points a function that you want made available as a command-line tool to whoever installs your packages. This goes into your setup.py like :

entry_points={'console_scripts' : ['cursive = cursive.tools.cmd:cursive_command',],
},