Packaging – Creating Your Own Libraries or Applications

The chapters thus far have covered how to write, test, and debug Python code. With all of that, there is only one thing that remains: packaging and distributing your Python libraries and applications. To create installable packages, we will use the setuptools package, which is bundled with Python these days. If you have created packages before, you might remember distribute and distutils2, but it is very important to remember that these have been replaced by setuptools and distutils and you shouldn’t use them anymore!

We have several types of packages and packaging methods to cover:

• Building new-style packages using the PEP 517/518 pyproject.toml file
• Advanced package building using the setup.py file
• Package types: wheels, eggs, source packages, and others
• Installing executables and custom setuptools commands
• Packages...