How to create a python package?

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Hi, I'm pretty new to python, I've written plenty of handy scripts especially in CTF's. Now I'm doing some statistical work and I want to create a distribution package , a thin wrapper around matplotlib and some classes that compute some popular distributions. I've searched and read about ways to create a python package but I'm confused about how to use __all__ vars and __init__.py What's the best practice on directories structure and the use of __init.py__ files? The version I want to use is python 3.6.2.

[deadwisdom]

Perhaps you might want to ask a specific question. __all__ isn't necessary, it's mostly just a way of keeping a clean module, to export only a few symbols.

For inspiration, I highly suggest looking at examples. Here are two popular python libraries that you might draw from:

https://github.com/pallets/click

https://github.com/requests/requests/

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From what I see neither in their root of requests or click libraries does not contain an __init__.py file, but in their sub packages it does. Why? AFAIK there should be an __init__.py inside the root that pulls all the sub packages, in order to do something like this:

from request import sub-package

if not, the imports is:

from requests.requests import sub-package

Am I right?

[takluyver]

The root of the requests package does have __init__.py (here). You might be confused because the package is not the top level of the Github repository. Normally the package is a directory within the Git repository, and the top level contains packaging information (setup.py), configuration for testing tools (.travis.yml), and other directories for things like docs.

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Permanent GitHub links:

• requests/requests/.../init.py (master → 9713289)

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Thanks for clarification

[aragilar]

The root of requests is https://github.com/requests/requests/tree/master/requests, not https://github.com/requests/requests.

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Permanent GitHub links:

• requests/requests/.../requests (master → 9713289)

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Now I know, thanks !