add main.py to make covalent works as a module

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,11 +14,13 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Santosh kumar <[email protected]>
 - Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Co-authored-by: kessler-frost <[email protected]>
+- Co-authored-by: n4n5 <[email protected]>
 
 
 ### Fixed
 
 - Ignoring all errors when importing qelectrons instead of only `ImportError`
+- Add a `__main__.py` file to use covalent as python package
 
 ## [0.235.0-rc.0] - 2024-05-29
 

covalent/__main__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2021 Agnostiq Inc.
+#
+# This file is part of Covalent.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). A copy of the
+# License may be obtained with this software package or at
+#
+#     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Use of this file is prohibited except in compliance with the License.
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+""" main.py file used for python -m covalent """
+
+from covalent_dispatcher._cli import cli
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    cli()