Install the supplied console scripts without the ".py" file extension

[knobix]

Feature request

Would it be possible to install the two console scripts pdf2txt.py and dumppdf.py without their .py file extension?

Most Python packages, that I'm aware of, provide their console scripts without the .py extension.

[pietermarsman]

Yes, I would like that as well.

Docs: https://python-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command-line-scripts.html

[hholst80]

This is how the flask script works:

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys
from flask.cli import main
if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(main())

However I would say that this is non-optimal. Better:

#!/bin/sh
exec python3 -m flask -- "$@"

[pietermarsman]

I realized that this is not as easy as I thought. The console script needs to be in the pdfminer package, but it is not. It is in the tools/ directory.

Maybe we should move the content of tools/ to the package as well and just keep some aliases there to not have any breaking changes?

[hholst80]

Create a __main__.py in the library ping @pietermarsman

when the package is invoved as a program __main__.py will be executed (after __init__.py if I remember correctly)

you would still need a CLI wrapper that wraps the tool as a non-.py suffix executable and for that my code snippet should work just fine.