How to create your own commands in Pyramid 1.4

Question

OK, before 1.4 release we had paster where we can add our own commands, for example for drop cache or load database initial data. Right now, how I understand, pyramid deal with Console Scripts but documentation is poor about this new feature. I want load initial database data. In old-style I write separate command for paster and register it when I will can load data like this:

paster loaddbdata

How I can do that now?

Answer 1

Pyramid provides the pyramid.paster.bootstrap() to make it easy to create a script with your application. Turning a script into a command isn't done through any complicated construct provided by Pyramid, but rather you should just use setuptools entry points. This involves adding a [console_scripts] section to your setup.py entry_points, re-running develop, and your script should be installed into the bin directory.

setup(
   # ...
   entry_points={
    'paste.app_factory': [
        'main = myapp:main',
    ],
    'console_scripts': [
        'myscript = myapp.scripts.myscript:main',
    ],
)