Consider Python packaging?

[danghai]

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[keon]

I started this repo with the educational purpose, but I think this could be a potential direction for development.
in order to do this, we need to

• work on standardizing filenames and api
• make docs for using api
• package and publish in pypi

I found algorithms is already in pypi, but it is not maintained (https://github.com/nryoung/algorithms).
It is actually pointing to our repo. Maybe I could reach out and talk.

[danghai]

@keon Awesome!, lets package them locally first. I create the PR for this: #268. But it has some issues. And you can reach out and talk about pypi with them. After local package works fine. We will push everything on pypi.

[danghai]

It works for python packaging locally. I merge them in repo. Lets check README, let me know if you have any errors

[keon]

shouldn't the api be something like:

from algorithms.sort import merge_sort?

we do not want to overwrite python's native api

[danghai]

@keon Yeah it is my mistake. But in order to do it, we need to group all source file under algorithms folder. What do you think?

[danghai]

@goswami-rahul do you know how to handle it :) ?

[goswami-rahul]

@danghai I have not yet worked on any packaging related stuff in Python, and I am not very familiar with these setup.py, etc. files yet.
I will be helpful in this, once I get acquainted with these stuff. I hope its not too difficult to understand, if you could explain briefly what exactly are we going to do. :)
And yeah, I agree with you in containg all these modules under an algorithms folder.

[keon]

I'll get back to this in a week. I am pressed by an urgent issue right now 🔥

[keon]

I have some good news coming. stay tuned!

[keon]

Thanks to Nic(@nryoung), we are live in PyPI!
He also agreed to join us as one of the maintainers, so please welcome!
now you can install the package with simple command pip install algorithms.

Please note that this is still a preliminary release.
We have some more improvements to make before releasing version 1.0.0.

• docs
• consistent api

[goswami-rahul]

Cheers! :)