[Tutor] distutil setup script

Gonçalo Rodrigues op73418 at mail.telepac.pt
Wed Nov 26 19:39:03 EST 2003


On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:59:26 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>i'm having trouble using a distutil setup script with py2exe. using the example given on their site, i created a setup script. however, when i go to run the script from command prompt (python setup-script.py py2exe ----- i think thats the right command), i get the following error:
> 
>  File "setup-script.py", line 8
>    scripts=["thing.py"],
>            ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
>This is my setup script:
> 
>#setup-script
>from distutils.core import setup
>import py2exe
>setup(name = "thing"
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Isn't a comma missing here?

>      scripts=["thing.py"],
>)
> 

It should be:

setup(name = "thing",
      scripts=["thing.py"],)


Best,
G. Rodrigues



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