Run a console script without typing "pdm run"

[tanng1999]

I have a CLI using Click with Setuptools where I can run a console script by its own name. Here is an example,

https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.0.x/setuptools/

Is there a way to have PDM-enabled project to run a console script by its own name, i.e. without always prefix "pdm run"? Thanks.

[Hnasar]

@tanng1999 if you use PDM to install into a virtual env, and then you activate the virtual env you will be able to run the script by its own name.

[floatingpurr]

Same question but I'm not sure I understood @Hnasar's hint. In Poetry you just write in your pyproject.toml:

[tool.poetry.scripts]
mycli = "mycli.__main__:main"

and you have the command mycli available in the virtualenv. How can I do the same with pdm?

[pawamoy]

[project.scripts]
mycli = "mycli.__main__:main"

[floatingpurr]

Hi (again) @pawamoy! As you may argue, finally I followed your hint and I started tinkering with pdm :)

Regarding my question. I've already tried to drop such lines in my pyproject.toml and to run pdm install, but it did not work.

[pawamoy]

Hey, nice ^^

What do you mean by "it didn't work"? command not found? You still need what @Hnasar said: to install dependencies in a venv (and not in __pypackages__), and to activate the venv. PDM 2.0 will by default install in a venv (unless you have a __pypackages__ directory). You can activate it with eval $(pdm venv activate 3.8) (or the Python version you're using).

[floatingpurr]

Yes, I was getting command not found. Turned out that the problem was the empty value of the key 'name' in my pyproject.toml. This didn't let pdm install my current package in the venv at all (neither the console script, of course) 😅