Chapter 11: Packaging, Distribution, and Virtual Environments
This chapter covers essential skills for packaging and distributing Python code, enabling code to be reusable and maintainable. Key processes include structuring Python code, managing dependencies, creating isolated environments, and publishing packages to the Python Package Index. Mastery of tools like setuptools and twine ensures efficient workflows in professional Python development.
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What we have learnt
- How to structure Python modules and packages for maintainability.
- Methods for managing dependencies with pip and requirements.txt.
- Strategies for creating and using virtual environments to avoid package conflicts.
- Steps for publishing packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI).
- Best practices for effective packaging and distribution of Python software.
Key Concepts
- -- Module
- A single .py file that contains Python code.
- -- Package
- A directory containing a special init.py file, which signifies that it is a package.
- -- venv
- A module in Python's standard library used for creating lightweight, isolated Python environments.
- -- pip
- Python’s package installer, used for installing and managing libraries.
- -- setuptools
- A library that facilitates packaging and distribution of Python projects.
- -- twine
- A utility for publishing Python packages to PyPI securely.
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