Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

Trove classifiers

PyPI and distutils provide a solution for categorizing applications with the set of classifiers called trove classifiers. All trove classifiers form a tree-like structure. Each classifier string defines a list of nested namespaces where every namespace is separated by the :: substring. Their list is provided to the package definition as a classifiers argument of the setup() function.

Here is an example list of classifiers taken from solrq project available on PyPI:

from setuptools import setup setup( name="solrq", # (...) classifiers=[ 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta', 'Intended Audience :: Developers', 'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License', 'Operating System :: OS Independent', 'Programming Language :: Python', 'Programming ...