Packaging

To create self-container executable files, use pyinstaller.

Directory structure

PROJECT
├── PROJECT     # Additional code files will be placed in here
│   └── init.py
└── setup.py    # Containing a call to `setuptools.setup()`

1 directory, 2 files

setup.py

from setuptools import setup

setup(
  name='funniest',
  version='0.1',
  description='The funniest joke in the world',
  url='http://github.com/storborg/funniest',
  author='Flying Circus',
  author_email='flyingcircus@example.com',
  license='MIT',
  packages=['funniest'],
  zip_safe=False
)

If the package has dependencies, they can be added by appending a install_requires keyword argument passing an array of the module names

setup(
  # ...,
  install_requires=[ 'markdown', ],
  # ...
)

# .gitignore
*.pyc
/dist/
/*.egg-info

Publishing on PyPI

Reserve the name, upload package metadata, and create the pypi.python.org webpage

python setup.py register

Create a source distribution, producing a tarball inside the top-level directory

python setup.py sdist

Upload the source distribution

python setup.py sdist upload

Do all the above in a single step

python setup.py register sdist upload