42. Packaging with setuptools

setuptools is a widely used library for packaging and distributing Python projects.

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Example setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name="mypackage",
    version="0.1",
    packages=find_packages(),
    install_requires=["requests"]
)

Build and install:

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
pip install dist/mypackage-0.1-py3-none-any.whl

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Wrap-Up

setuptools helps create installable Python packages for distribution.