wheel package script points to local python path

Question

I have a Python package with a script with the shebang #!/usr/bin/env python . After I build a wheel of this package, I inspect the script inside the .whl and the new shebang is #!/path/to/some/virtualenv/bin/python. It's the path to a virtualenv which is not even the one active when I build the wheel.

> which python
#!/path/to/active/virtualenv/bin/python

> which wheel
#!/path/to/active/virtualenv/bin/wheel

This breaks distribution of my package. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Split process into 2 phases:

python setup.py build --executable '/usr/bin/env python' &&
python setup.py bdist_wheel [--universal]

build command creates build/ subdirectory; when a bdist_* command (bdist_egg or bdist_wheel) detects the existence of the subdirectory it doesn't run build command but uses whatever build put in build/.

I use the approach in all my release scripts. Two examples: Cheetah, SQLObject.