Tips and Tricks¶
Useful things while building this project.
Listing Packages¶
Using pip
pip list
pip show -f [package name]
From your code
import pkg_resources
# https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5243#issuecomment-381513000
dists = [d for d in pkg_resources.working_set]
# Filter out distributions you don't care about and use.
Project Packaging¶
While testing my package on test.pypi.org I couldn’t get my readme file to render as reStructuredText. Turns out it only supports core RST, not extensions. To find this out you can use twine to check the project before uploading. Remember that twine is checking the distribution files; if you changed the source to fix a problem don’t forget to rebuild the distribution.
C:\py_guide> venv\scripts\python.exe -m twine check dist/sjb.browserdriver-2019.4.28-py2-none-any.whl
Checking distribution dist/sjb.browserdriver-2019.4.28-py2-none-any.whl: Passed
If you want to programatically get the version of a built distribution the following [1] is useful. Please realize this version may be different than what is in setup.py, if you have updated the value there, but not built the package yet.
import pkg_resources
try:
__version__ = pkg_resources.get_distribution('py_guide').version
except Exception:
__version__ = 'unknown'
Footnotes
| [1] | Found at https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/master/setuptools/version.py via https://packaging.python.org/guides/single-sourcing-package-version/ |