---
name: "paster3"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-pastescript"
version: "3.7.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/paster3"
---

# paster3(1)

pluggable command-line frontend, including commands to setup package file layouts

## NAME

paster3 - pluggable command-line frontend, including commands to setup package file layouts

## SYNOPSIS

**paster3** paster3 \[OPTION\] COMMAND \[command\_options\]\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **paster3** command.

**paster3** is a program that can create file layouts for Python3 packages and serve up web applications, with configuration based on paste.deploy. It can for instance create a setuptools-ready file layout.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **--version**

  Show version of program.

- **--plugin=PLUGINS**

  Add a plugin to the list of commands (plugins are Egg specs; will also require() the Egg)\

## COMMANDS

- **create**

  Create the file layout for a Python distribution

- **grep**

  Search project for symbol

- **help**

  Display help

- **make-config**

  Install a package and create a fresh config file/directory

- **points**

  Show information about entry points

- **serve**

  Serve the described application

- **setup-app**

  Setup an application, given a config file

## AUTHOR

paster3 was written by Ian Bicking \<ianb@colorstudy.com\>.

This manual page was written by Piotr Ozarowski \<ozarow@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).