pipx instructions might need to be fleshed out for idiots like myself

[kaihendry]

Didn't quite grok pipx. I assumed it would install to pwd, but I think it installed into ~/.local/bin... and it still didn't find the module.

pipx run aws_export_credentials
'aws_export_credentials' executable script not found in package 'aws_export_credentials'. Available executable scripts:
aws-export-credentials

Workaround was to use python3 -m pip install --user aws-export-credentials

[benbridts]

I'm not sure how helpfull it is, but this page tries to explain how pipx differs from pip (and other tools): https://pypa.github.io/pipx/comparisons/

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For the executable script not found error:

Pipx can be used in two ways:

• to install something as a cli tool
• to run the same thing as a one-off without installing it.

For the first case, after installing pipx, and making sure that ~/.local/bin is in your PATH (eg. by running pipx ensurepath ), you would do

pipx install aws-export-credentials
aws-export-credentials  # this is ~/.local/bin/aws-export-credentials

For the second case, you would skip the install step and run

pipx run aws-export-credentials

In both cases you use the package name (with -), not the directory name (with _).

[benkehoe]

Thanks @benbridts, apparently I overlooked this issue. I should also probably get this into homebrew.