From c7b8649f103e3e5bb8460998b434897716ab2683 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan <3770774+TheSriram@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 07:10:01 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] feat: allow sam to be invoked as a module (#987)

---
 .pylintrc          |  2 +-
 samcli/__main__.py | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 samcli/__main__.py

diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index c0987c591e..1d864729c6 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 # Add files or directories to the blacklist. They should be base names, not
 # paths.
-ignore=compat.py
+ignore=compat.py, __main__.py
 
 # Pickle collected data for later comparisons.
 persistent=yes
diff --git a/samcli/__main__.py b/samcli/__main__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6b8d9261ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samcli/__main__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+"""
+Invokable Module for CLI
+
+python -m samcli
+"""
+
+from samcli.cli.main import cli
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    cli()