Steps to create a python package

Step 1 :

• Create a new repository in github
  • choose a license
  • include a readme
  • select .gitignore file for python

Step 2 :

• 2.1

• Create a package directory

• 2.2

• Create a module inside the package directory. A module is a single .py file that contains Python code — it could be functions, classes, or variables

• 2.3

• Edit init.py

• 2.4

• Create setup file (setup.py)
  • Example 1 :

  setup(
    name='calc-demo',
    version='1.0.0',
    url='https://github.com/Franc6s/demo-package-test',
    author='Francis Mangala',
    author_email='francis@viz-optima.us',
    description='Demo basic calculator',
    license='MIT',
    packages=['calculator']
    )
  

  • Example 2 :

    from setuptools import setup, find_packages
    
    setup(
    name='MyPackageName',
    version='1.0.0',
    url='https://github.com/mypackage.git',
    author='Author Name',
    author_email='author@gmail.com',
    description='Description of my package',
    packages=find_packages(),    
    install_requires=['numpy >= 1.11.1', 'matplotlib >= 1.5.1']
    )
    

  • Example 3 :

    from setuptools import setup
    
    setup(
    name = 'PackageName',
    version = '0.1.0',
    author = 'An Awesome Coder',
    author_email = 'aac@example.com',
    packages = ['package_name', 'package_name.test'],
    scripts = ['bin/script1','bin/script2'],
    url = 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PackageName/',
    license = 'LICENSE.txt',
    description = 'An awesome package that does something',
    long_description = open('README.txt').read(),
    install_requires = [
        "Django >= 1.1.1",
        "pytest",
    ]
    )
    

• Put the test file above the package directory, in the root of the project directory.
• Stage, commit, and push all the files you've created.

• Step 3 :

• Install your package with pip. pip install . (make sure to include the .)