How to make a Python package in 2021

• Poetry

  377 29,397 9.6 Python

  Python packaging and dependency management made easy

  

Future-proof... Poetry 1.1 broke compatibility with 1.0. 1.1 lockfiles would crash Poetry 1.0, and 1.0 lockfiles would be thrown away by Poetry 1.1.

It does not correctly verify hashes (if at all) [1]. You can't add packages without updating all your dependencies. Monorepos are not supported. PEP-508-compliant Git dependencies cause the tool to crash with TypeError [2].

I think Poetry is the right solution, I use it for everything, but it's not the silver bullet you're painting it to be (yet). It's definitely not on par with Cargo, or maybe even npm.

[1]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/3765

• vscode-python

  77 4,213 9.6 TypeScript

  Python extension for Visual Studio Code

  

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• Pipenv

  33 24,583 9.5 Python

  Python Development Workflow for Humans.

  

I don't know anything about pipenv drama, so by morbid curiosity I looked for it and this is the first thing I saw:

https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2228

This is one of the most ridiculous issues I've read. If the rest of the "drama" is like that, then eh.

• flit

  6 2,093 6.4 Python

  Simplified packaging of Python modules

  

I hadn't heard of flit, it does seem like it's not brand new on the scene, however it is primarily a single contributor:

https://github.com/takluyver/flit/graphs/contributors

With a title like this, I'd be expecting to see an article describing the latest tools and recommendations from the PyPA.

• hyper-inspector

  2 19 0.0 Python

+1 for poetry. It also includes deterministic dependency resolution with a lock file.

I just published a repo today[0] using Poetry and it didn’t take me more than 5 minutes. Poetry build && poetry publish

[0] https://github.com/santiagobasulto/hyper-inspector

• laravel-websockets-example

  5 21 0.0 PHP

  Quick example of a docker stack for laravel-websockets

I rather just write a bash script. It's the lowest common denominator. Make may not be installed by default in many places and it has some weird syntax quirks that make it annoying to use IMO.

Here's an example of how I like to do my "bash scripts that sorta work like make": https://github.com/francislavoie/laravel-websockets-example/... basically each function is a "command", so I do like "./utils start" or whatever.

• python-lib

  1 157 5.8 Python

  Opinionated cookiecutter template for creating a new Python library

I have a cookiecutter template for this at https://github.com/simonw/python-lib (also click-app and datasette-plugin)

It sets up GitHub actions for publishing the package to PyPI when you create a release on GitHub - which I find way to be a really productive way of working.

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• pip

  108 9,264 9.8 Python

  The Python package installer

  

• virtualenv

  10 4,711 8.4 Python

  Virtual Python Environment builder

  

• Django

  484 76,672 9.8 Python

  The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

  

Also automatcially handles the issue of public vs private etc. Note this [1] recommends using zip files for speed, especially for larger repositories:

    pip install https://github.com/django/django/archive/master.zip

• python-template

  2 0 0.0 Shell

  A simple template Python repository which describes a workflow and set of tools, to make group projects more manageable (by alknemeyer)

Somewhat related: I have an example repository which I've been using to keep track of the tools I use, aimed at people in a research lab who are relatively new to Python. I made it because the existing example/template repositories I found don't gel nicely with the way I like to set up and think about things. Here it is -- hope you find it useful:

https://github.com/alknemeyer/python-template/

• sampleproject

  18 4,989 4.9 Python

  A sample project that exists for PyPUG's "Tutorial on Packaging and Distributing Projects"

  

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