entry_points does not create custom scripts with pip, only with easy_install in Python

Question

I'm packaging a script for the first time in python. It can be used both as a module, and an executable so I found out I could use

entry_points = {
    'console_scripts': [
        'myscript = myscript:main',
    ],
}

in my setup.py to automatically generate a script in the user's python-x.x.x/bin directory.

My python script ends with

if __name__ == '__main__': main()

where main() parses command-line input.

I packaged this using the command:

python setup.py sdist

and then tested the distribution as:

easy_install dist/myscript-0.3.2.tar.gz

This puts a myscript executable in my python-2.7.5/bin as expected.

But this doesn't:

pip install dist/myscript-0.3.2.tar.gz

Any ideas why? My directory tree looks like:

Root/
|-- MANIFEST.in
|-- README.rst
|-- dist
|   `-- myscript-0.3.2.tar.gz
|-- myscript.egg-info
|   |-- ...
|-- myscript.py
|-- setup.cfg
|-- setup.py
`-- test
    |-- ...

and my setup.py roughly looks like:

import os

from setuptools import setup

def read(*paths):
 """Build a file path from *paths* and return the contents."""
 with open(os.path.join(*paths), 'r') as f:
  return f.read()

setup(
 name='myscript',
 version='0.3.2',
 description='bla',
 long_description=(read('README.rst')),
 url='http://url',
 license='LGPL',
 author='Me',
 author_email='[email protected]',
 py_modules=['myscript'],
 include_package_data=True,
 classifiers=[
  'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
  'Intended Audience :: Developers',
  'Natural Language :: English',
  'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)',
  'Operating System :: OS Independent',
  'Programming Language :: Python',
  'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
  'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
  'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
 ],
 install_requires=['Texttable'],
 entry_points = {
  'console_scripts': [
   'myscript = myscript:main',
  ],
 }
)

Answer 1

It seems that after uploading the package to PyPI using these instructions, pip install myscript did place an executable in my python bin. Must have been a local issue.