Trouble following packaging libraries tutorial - no dist generated

[Michael-Yongshi]

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1. What is your operating system and version?

Windows 10

2. What is your Python version?

Python 3.6.8

3. What version of pip do you have?

pip 20.1

4. If following an online tutorial or guide, please provide a link to the page or section giving you trouble:

https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/

5. Could you describe your issue in as much detail as possible?
   Guide worked fine until actually using setuptools and wheels to generated distributable. No text was generated and no dist files were found, like it never run in the first place.

[uranusjr]

What happens if you just run python or python setup.py?

[Michael-Yongshi]

i get this

E:\Git\packaging_tutorial>python
Python 3.6.8 (tags/v3.6.8:3c6b436a57, Dec 24 2018, 00:16:47) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> python setup.py
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    python setup.py
               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

[kethan1]

run python setup.py in the terminal

[Michael-Yongshi]

PS E:\Git\packaging_tutorial> python setup.py
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: no commands supplied
PS E:\Git\packaging_tutorial>

PS E:\Git\packaging_tutorial> python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
PS E:\Git\packaging_tutorial>

[merwok]

Did that latest command not create a wheel and an sdist in a dist directory?

[Michael-Yongshi]

nope

[uranusjr]

What happens if you simply run python3? I suspect python.exe and python3.exe are pointing to different executables on your machine. Most likely, the latter is pointing to Microsoft’s Python stub, which sliently does nothing when you pass arguments to it. Simply running python3 will open the Windows Store page of Python if my assumption is correct.

Try running python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel if this is the case. The python command seems to work fine, judging from previous information you gave.

[Michael-Yongshi]

yeah that works, so i was just using the wrong python command