Python Testing with pytest

Creating a Source Distribution and Wheel

For personal use, the configuration shown in the previous section is enough to create a source distribution and a wheel. Let’s try it:

$ cd /path/to/code/appendices/packaging/some_package_proj/
$ python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
running sdist
...
warning: sdist: standard file not found:
  should have one of README, README.rst, README.txt

running check
warning: check: missing required meta-data: url

warning: check: missing meta-data:
  either (author and author_email)
  or (maintainer and maintainer_email) must be supplied

running bdist_wheel
...
$ ls dist
some_package-0.0.0-py3-none-any.whl some_package-0.0.0.tar.gz

Well, with some warnings, a .whl ...