Mastering GUI Programming with Python

Basic metadata arguments

The simplest arguments involve the basic metadata about the project:

    name='QTicTacToe',    version='1.0',    author='Alan D Moore',    author_email='[e-mail]',    description='The classic game of noughts and crosses',    url="http://qtictactoe.example.com",    license='MIT',

Here, we've described the package name, version, short description, project URL, and license, as well as the author's name and email. This information will be written to the package metadata and used by sites such as PyPI to build a profile page for your project.

For example, look at the PyPI page for PyQt5:

Along the left-side of the page, you'll ...