What I am trying to achieve

My goal is, after installing the python package, to be able to run a command without having to type python before the command.

Example

$ excommand
Hello, World!

Directory Structure

.
├── example
    ├── __init__.py
    └── exmodule.py
├── .venv
├── pyproject.toml
└── setup.cfg

exmodule.py

def command():
    print("Hello, World!")

pyproject.toml

[build-system]
requires = [ "setuptools" ]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

setup.cfg

[metadata]
name = Example
version = 1.0.0

[options]
packages = find:

[options.entry_points]
console_scripts = 
    excommand = example.exmodule:command

The Problem

After the execution of the following command on terminal:

$ python3 -m build --wheel

No warnings or errors are printed to the terminal but the command does not work:

$ excommand
zsh: command not found: excommand

What was tried

Before using the TOML file, I was just using the setup.cfg file with a setup.py, but when installing the package with the command pip install . I was warned that future versions of pip would guarantee the use of TOML files. It was not working either, so tried using TOML.

With newer setuptools and pyproject.toml you can use: (only relevant parts included)

[build-system]
build-backend = 'setuptools.build_meta'
requires = ["setuptools>=69.2.0", "setuptools-scm"]

[tool.setuptools]
packages = ["yourpackage"]

[project.scripts]
yourbinary = "yourpackage.yourpackage:main"

You must create a main() function in your yourpackage.yourpackage.py:

#<all your fantastic code>

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='superdupermain')
    parser.add_argument('--debug', help='debug', action='store_true')
    :

if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

When you run pip install yourpackage in a <venv> it will install:

    <venv>\lib\site-packages\yourpackage\yourpackage.py
    <venv>\scripts\yourbinary.exe

It will be in your path so you can execute yourbinary.exe for linux it will be an executable yourbinary