Inside the Cheeseshop: How Python Packaging Works

Speaker

Dustin Ingram

Material

• video
• slide

Note

• History of packaging
  • distuils
    • sdist -> source distribution
    • bdist -> build distribution
  • PyPI (Pie-P-I)
  • setuptools
  • easy_intall
  • egg
  • pyinstall pip (a.k.a. python install package)
  • requirements.txt
  • PyPI hosts distribution (PEP 427)
  • egg -> wheel (from wheel cheese)
    • wheel has specification
    • no one reinvents the wheel
  • twine
• Problem Nowadays
  • Packaging is hard
    • Python Packaging User Guide
    • pypa/sampleproject
  • need more than Python
    • conda
  • reproducible environment
    • pipenv
  • arbitrary code in setup.py
    • PEP 517 / 518
    • pyproject.toml

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