Application and package of the same name

[Skip Montanaro]

> My immediate reaction is "you shouldn't name your main program and
> your package the same". It's not a pattern I've seen commonly used.
>
> However, the approaches I've seen used (a __main__.py inside the
> package, so you can execute it via `python -m fribble`, or a setup.py
> entry point to generate a script wrapper for the application) may be
> more common among people focused more on library development than on
> application development.

Thanks Paul. The simplest course for me is to change the name of the
application,
as the package is already in use by other people, and I don't really
want to embed the
application in the package.

Skip