Global completion doesn't work for packages installed from wheels

pytest has its command line scripts installed via setuptools.setup(entry_points={‘console_scripts’: …}) construction. If I understand correctly, argcomplete’s global completion should handle this case and work just fine in such a situation, but it doesn’t. Looks like this if statement should cover such a case, but pytest script created after installation doesn’t have any of these strings in it. Here is the full content of pytest script from my environment:

#!/Users/pavel/.pyenv/versions/3.6.1/envs/test_env/bin/python3.6

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys

from pytest import main

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
    sys.exit(main())

pytest module from which main function is imported has # PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK as its first string.

I’ve opened a ticket in pytest project (see https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/2725), but it looks like that this is a problem of argcomplete.

[mbdevpl]

FYI: In upstream issue https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4702 the consensus is that they will not do anything about it. And the solution in PR #241 is working for me after rebasing onto current master.

[pavelrad]

Filed https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4702.