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Stand-alone fabfile for fabric?

Asked 2010-07-19T06:31:12.867
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Is it possible to make the fabfile stand-alone?
I'm not very fond of running the external tool 'fab'. If I manage to get the fabfile standalone I can run the file from within the (Eclipse / Pydev) IDE, easily debug it, use project configurations and paths etc.
Why doesn't this work:

from fabric.api import run

def host_type():
    run('uname -s')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    host_type()
python fabric
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I eventually found the solution (and it is really simple!).
In my fabfile, I added:

from fabric.main import main

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    sys.argv = ['fab', '-f', __file__, 'update_server']
    main()

I hope this helps people...

answered 2011-06-19T08:58:56.503

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