I have, in a single repo, two Python projects that both depend on a shared utility package. My goal is to package each of the two projects in a software distribution package (i.e. a .tzr.gz file) I...

When doing python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel it creates build, dist, packagename.egg-info directories. I'd like to have them out of the current folder. I tried: --dist-dir=../dist: works with sdi...

We have a big legacy project that contains some python code inside, the version of all components in the project is set during runtime by the build system which builds the project. We now need to p...

I have a setup.py: from setuptools import setup setup( ... packages=['mypackage'], test_suite='mypackage.tests', ... ) python setup.py sdist creates a file that includes only the source mo...

I bundle my package as a sdist zip file , after that i can import my package anywhere using pip install , but i want to run some post install commands automatically after calling pip install. I can...

I would like to find the proper way to include files in a python sdist that are not tracked by git. Context The .mo files from my project are not tracked by git (like some other .txt files that n...

I know it is possible to force sdist to produce .zip from command line: python setup.py sdist --formats=zip But how to make this option a default for my setup.py? I'd like to get consistency fo...

I am a bit confused. There seem to be two different kind of Python packages, source distributions (setup.py sdist) and egg distributions (setup.py bdist_egg). Both seem to be just archives with th...

Everytime I use sdist to creat the MANIFEST file with the command: 'python setup.py sdist --manifest-only' The terminal always outputs this error msg. error: option --manifest-only not reco...

About the only reason I can think of to distribute a python package as an egg is so that you can not include the .py files with your package (and only include .pyc files, which is a dubious way to ...