Difference between entry_points/console_scripts and scripts in setup.py?

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The docs for the (awesome) Click package suggest a few reasons to use entry points instead of scripts, including

  1. cross-platform compatibility and
  2. avoiding having the interpreter assign __name__ to __main__, which could cause code to be imported twice (if another module imports your script)

Click is a nice way to implement functions for use as entry_points, btw.

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