From 998a887736e987a3203a007a30fa843fb3f93381 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gcarq <michael.egger@tsn.at>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 23:47:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add command line script

---
 bin/freqtrade         |  4 ++++
 freqtrade/__init__.py |  2 ++
 freqtrade/main.py     | 13 +++++++++++--
 setup.py              |  1 +
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 bin/freqtrade

diff --git a/bin/freqtrade b/bin/freqtrade
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fc085a11d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/freqtrade
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import freqtrade
+freqtrade.main()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/freqtrade/__init__.py b/freqtrade/__init__.py
index 9d1bb721b..c905819a2 100644
--- a/freqtrade/__init__.py
+++ b/freqtrade/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 __version__ = '0.10.0'
+
+from .main import main
diff --git a/freqtrade/main.py b/freqtrade/main.py
index 4c0fb1401..c2a26ea38 100755
--- a/freqtrade/main.py
+++ b/freqtrade/main.py
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ def init(config: dict, db_url: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
 
 def app(config: dict) -> None:
     """
-    Main function which handles the application state
+    Main loop which handles the application state
     :param config: config as dict
     :return: None
     """
@@ -263,8 +263,17 @@ def app(config: dict) -> None:
         telegram.send_msg('*Status:* `Trader has stopped`')
 
 
-if __name__ == '__main__':
+def main():
+    """
+    Loads and validates the config and starts the main loop
+    :return: None
+    """
+    global _CONF
     with open('config.json') as file:
         _CONF = json.load(file)
         validate(_CONF, CONF_SCHEMA)
         app(_CONF)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 79aacb7f9..0d8675d96 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ setup(name='freqtrade',
       author_email='michael.egger@tsn.at',
       license='GPLv3',
       packages=['freqtrade'],
+      scripts=['bin/freqtrade'],
       zip_safe=False)