Python entry point doesn't work if package is installed in a non-default directory

[Rob-Welch]

For example, if you use the system version of python on the HPC, you can't install into the site-packages directory, you have to install into some user PREFIX directory. This causes the ctools entry point to fail with the following error:

  File "/home/rw690/site-packages/bin/ctools", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('chromatin==0.1.0', 'console_scripts', 'ctools')()
  File "/usr/local/software/anaconda/3.2019-10/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/local/software/anaconda/3.2019-10/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2851, in load_entry_point
    raise ImportError("Entry point %r not found" % ((group, name),))
ImportError: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'ctools') not found

Strangely, opening the python console and doing import chromatin.ctools works just fine. So clearly there is some other issue here.

[Rob-Welch]

As of a recent update to CSD3, this doesn't happen anymore.