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?

When you register a script, it creates an executable in the /bin of your virtualenv. You can read the docs here http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/narr/commandline.html#making-your-script-into-a-console-script and also see the tutorial example here http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/tutorials/wiki2/definingmodels.html#changing-scripts-initializedb-py — Antoine Leclair, Mar 13 '13 at 13:58
@AntoineLeclair. Thanks for your help. But this tutor about pshell (wrapper around python interpreter). And I do it with pshell and so it's looks how you start shell and you have your own command in shell context. It works fine, but I am embarrassed, this is a not proper way to load initial data I think. Can I do this through setup.py? — Denis, Mar 14 '13 at 05:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 23 '13 at 21:02

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',
    ],
)

How to create your own commands in Pyramid 1.4

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