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setup.py reviews and mentions

• Could I get some basic info on pyproject.toml please?
  1 project | /r/learnpython | 19 Feb 2022

  When I look at projects using the toml files exclusively without a setup.py in the project, I noticed something. No one is taking setup.py best practices and applying them where applicable to their toml files. What I mean by that is - take a look at navdeep-g's setup.py. I'm assuming `.toml` files can't import a `__version.py__` file and do other py things? What about something like,

• How do I stay organized and define milestones?
  1 project | /r/learnpython | 19 Feb 2022

  Yesterday I was curious how the Requests library was doing something, which led me down a rabbit hole to navdeep-G's setup.py and I rewrote my setup.py to be one of the best setup.pyfiles I've ever written.. But I should have been revising my main module. I did need to rewrite my setup.py, but the point is - it should have been on a to do list and set aside as its own thing. But I just kind of found a rhythm and things were really clicking, so I went with it.

• I am frustrated with packaging python, please educate me.
  2 projects | /r/Python | 16 Nov 2021

  Here is a wonderful setup.py template I like to use: https://github.com/navdeep-G/setup.py. But to be fair, I have also switched to poetry in the last year.

• What the Fu-k Python?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2021

  * Popular libraries for various use cases (i.e. Django/Flask for web applications)

  setup.py (for humans) - https://github.com/navdeep-G/setup.py

• Hi Guys! I wrote my first useful program and I'd like to share it with all of you!
  1 project | /r/learnpython | 12 Jan 2021

  This is my favorite setup.py example.

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