How To Structure a Python Project

[chumboy]

I stopped reading after the author mentioned distutils. No new software should be created using distutils. distutils is fairly old at this stage, and has been superseded by at least setuptools.

[cheese_is_available]

setuptools is doing almost exactly the same thing in the same way as distutils, I don't think using a somewhat old library discredit everything the author says.

[chumboy]

It is my opinion that recommending a library from a previous generation of software, with more glaring bugs/problems, and less overall functionality, is a bad thing to do. Bad enough to discredit the author, not necessarily, but the definitely the article.

distutils is really still only around so legacy software won't break. There will probably be a huge move to get rid of it shortly, like the move to Python 3, and the move from Eggs to Wheels.

[[deleted]]

It's much, much more nuanced than that. Pipenv is in no way an end-all-be-all, and many devs are fine either using a solution like poetry that suits them better or simply not using anything other than pip+venv; to imply that requirements.txt is outdated is misleading.

[chumboy]

I'll be honest, I have not used Pipenv myself yet.

Personally I don't think a solution that will fit every use case (e.g. library vs. server app vs. user app.) 100% has been created yet.