Packaging a python app

or what you should know to package a python application.

This blog is about the easiest place to put your code and do not fit for big project. But if you have a really nice open source personnal project and want to share it with the community, it’s a good starting point.

Put in on github

The first place where you project should be visible is on GitHub. Just signup on github if not already done and create a new repo for your project.

Document it !

Even obvious usage of your package should be documented for new python user. The easiest way is readthedoc.org.

It rely mainly on sphinx documentation. You can find everything you need here

Once done, sign in and set your project to your github repo.

Pypi

Be finding a default setup.py, hacking it a bit, sign in pypi and run:

python setup.py register
python setup.py sdist upload

That’s it.

You will be amazed of how many people will start downloading your code (and maybe even using it).