Welcome to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Packaging

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Table of Contents

• Quick Start
  • 1. Lay out your project main directory.
  • 2. Register your package with the Python Package Index (PyPI)
  • 3. For each release, build and upload the package.
  • 4. Go find some users.
  • Grab Your Towel and Save the Universe
• Introduction to Packaging
  • The Packaging Ecosystem
  • Benefits of packaging
  • Current State of Packaging
  • Creating a Micro-Ecosystem with virtualenv
• Installing the Package Tools
  • Distribute
  • Pip Installs Python (Pip)
• Using Packages
  • Finding Packages
  • Installing from other sources
  • Running your own package index
• Creating a Package
  • Packaging with Distribute
  • Basics: Creating and Distributing Distributions
  • Packaging for a Particular Operating System (OS)
• Contribute Your Package to the World
  • The Python Package Index (PyPI)
  • Private and secondary PyPI servers
• Virtual Environments
  • Getting Started
• Specifications
  • Naming Specification
  • Versioning Specification
• Advanced Topics
• Future of Packaging
  • Inshort...
• Glossary
  • Citations
• Credits
  • Contributors
  • Referenced Materials
• License

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page