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Hands-On Software Engineering with Python
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Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

by Nimesh Verma, Brian Allbee
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
736 pages
17h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Packaging and build process

Setting up the minimal standard Python packaging for a project and providing the bare-bones build process makes very few changes to the baseline setup.py and Makefile files that were discussed earlier. There are only a few specifics that are available before code starts being written: the package name and the top-level directory of the main package that setup.py will use, and the setup.py file itself that can be added to the Makefile.  The Makefile changes are the simplest:

# Makefile for the HMS Core (hms-core) project main: test setup # Doesn't (yet) do anything other than running the test and # setup targets setup: # Calls the main setup.py to build a source-distribution # python setup.py sdist test: # Executes ...
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