A simple packaging tool for simple packages.
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Flit is a simple way to put Python packages and modules on PyPI.
Say you’re writing a module foobar.py and you want to distribute it.
Make sure that foobar’s docstring starts with a one-line summary of what the module is, and that it has a __version__:
"""An amazing sample package!""" __version__ = '0.1'Create a file foobar-pypi.ini—or foobar/pypi.ini if foobar is a package. It should look like this:
[metadata] author=Sir Robin author-email=robin@camelot.uk home-page=http://github.com/sirrobin/foobar # If you want command line scripts, this is how to declare them. # If not, you can leave this section out completely. [scripts] # foobar:main means the script will do: from foobar import main; main() foobar=foobar:mainThere are other fields you can add - see the pypi.ini page of the docs.
Run this command to upload your code to PyPI:
flit path/to/foobar.py wheel --upload
To install a package locally for development, run:
flit path/to/foobar.py install [--symlink]
Flit packages a single importable module or package at a time, using the import name as the name on PyPI. All subpackages and data files within a package are included automatically.
Flit requires Python 3, but you can use it to distribute modules for Python 2, so long as they can be imported on Python 3.
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