Now that we've got our setup.py
, we can use it to do a number of interesting things. The first, and perhaps most obvious, thing we can do is install our module into our virtual environment! We do this by passing the install argument to setup.py
:
(palindrome_env)$ python setup.py install running install running build running build_py copying palindrome.py -> build/lib running install_lib copying build/lib/palindrome.py -> /Users/sixty_north/examples/palindrome/palindrome_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages byte-compiling /Users/sixty_north/examples/palindrome/palindrome_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/palindrome.py to palindrome.cpython-35.pyc running install_egg_info Writing /Users/sixty_north/examples/palindrome/palindrome_env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/palindrome-1.0-py3.5.egg-info
When invoked setup()
prints out a few lines to tell you about its progress. The most important line for us is where is actually copies palindrome.py
into the installation folder:
copying...