Expert Python Programming - Second Edition

Chapter 5. Writing a Package

This chapter focuses on a repeatable process to write and release Python packages. Its intentions are:

• To shorten the time needed to set up everything before starting the real work
• To provide a standardized way to write packages
• To ease the use of a test-driven development approach
• To facilitate the releasing process

It is organized into the following four parts:

• A common pattern for all packages that describes the similarities between all Python packages, and how distutils and setuptools play a central role
• What namespace packages are and why they can be useful
• How to register and upload packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) with emphasis on security and common pitfalls
• The stand-alone executables as an alternative way ...