Guides

Guides are focused on accomplishing a specific task and assume that you are already familiar with the basics of Python packaging. If you’re looking for an introduction to packaging, see Tutorials.

• Installation
  • Install packages in a virtual environment using pip and venv
  • Installing packages using virtualenv
  • Installing stand alone command line tools
  • Installing pip/setuptools/wheel with Linux Package Managers
  • Installing scientific packages
• Building and Publishing
  • Writing your pyproject.toml
  • Packaging and distributing projects
  • Single-sourcing the package version
  • Dropping support for older Python versions
  • Packaging binary extensions
  • Packaging namespace packages
  • Creating and discovering plugins
  • Using TestPyPI
  • Making a PyPI-friendly README
  • Publishing package distribution releases using GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows
  • How to modernize a setup.py based project?
• Hosting
  • Package index mirrors and caches
  • Hosting your own simple repository
• Tool recommendations
• Analyzing PyPI package downloads