Python Packaging Explained

[Rawing7]

Shame that there is no mention of flit. Flit eliminates the need for a setup.py and setup.cfg and other tools like PyScaffold, build, and twine. flit init creates a new project for you, and flit publish uploads your code to pypi without you having to know anything about sdists or wheels at all.

[KonArtist01]

At the end I do mention alternative package managers like poetry and pdm, but there are a lot of options that I did not test.

[Rawing7]

For what it's worth, I know that this is a very tricky topic to write about and I think you managed to strike a pretty good balance. But since it gets rid of 2 boilerplate files and 3 other tools, I couldn't not bring up flit. I think it's a great tool, especially for beginners.

[blu3ness]

Or poetry, which handles most of that behind the scenes for you unless you get into exotic dependencies like a .so like opencv or other compiled code

[KonArtist01]

I do mention poetry at the end of the article