Re: Fwd: Re: Use of "python" shebang an installation error?

John Thorvald Wodder II <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:35:39 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel
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On 2020 Jul 22, at 14:30, David Mathog <[email protected]> wrote:
> Scripts usually end up in a "bin" directory on linux.  Is that part of
> the installation standard or could a package put them in an arbitrary
> path (other than under "site-packages") under the venv's root, for
> instance in a directory named "scripts"?

Pip always puts commands — both those declared with console_scripts entry points and those declared as "scripts" — in a bin/ directory (or whatever the equivalent is on Windows).  The individual packages get no say in this.

-- John Wodder
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