How to create Python egg file

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I have questions about egg files in Python   I have much Python code organized by package and I m trying to create egg files  I m following instructions  but they are very common   According to that  it seems I need to have a setup py file    Would you please tell me what I need to put into setup py file and where it should reside  I suppose it s enough to create setup py and then start  setup py bdist egg  for getting egg file  Could you please confirm  Is it possible to include only  pyc files into egg file  Having  egg file how I can just start the code from it without unpacking like java -jar  lt jar file gt  does

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You are reading the wrong documentation  You want this  https   setuptools readthedocs io en latest setuptools html develop-deploy-the-project-source-in-development-mode   Creating setup py is covered in the distutils documentation in Python s standard library documentation here  The main difference  for python eggs  is you import setup from setuptools  not distutils  Yep  That should be right  I don t think so  pyc files can be version and platform dependent  You might be able to open the egg  they should just be zip files  and delete  py files leaving  pyc files  but it wouldn t be recommended  I m not sure  That might be    Development Mode     Or are you looking for some    py2exe    or    py2app    mode

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For  4  the closest thing to starting java with a jar file for your app is a new feature in Python 2 6  executable zip files and directories   python myapp zip   Where myapp zip is a zip containing a   main   py file which is executed as the script file to be executed  Your package dependencies can also be included in the file     main   py mypackage   init   py mypackage someliblibfile py   You can also execute an egg  but the incantation is not as nice      Bourn Shell and derivatives  Linux OSX Unix  PYTHONPATH myapp egg python -m myapp   rem Windows  set PYTHONPATH myapp egg python -m myapp   This puts the myapp egg on the Python path and uses the -m argument to run a module  Your myapp egg will likely look something like   myapp   init   py myapp somelibfile py   And python will run   init   py  you should check that   file       main    in your app for command line use    Egg files are just zip files so you might be able to add   main   py to your egg with a zip tool and make it executable in python 2 6 and run it like python myapp egg instead of the above incantation where the PYTHONPATH environment variable is set   More information on executable zip files including how to make them directly executable with a shebang can be found on Michael Foord s blog post on the subject

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I think you should use python wheels for distribution instead of egg now      Wheels are the new standard of python distribution and are intended to   replace eggs  Support is offered in pip    1 4 and setuptools    0 8

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