How to submit a package to PyPI

PyPI (Python Package Index) is a repository of software for the Python programming language. This article will tell you how to submit your package to PyPI, so others are able to install it with easy_install or pip. The offical document is at http://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShopTutorial#Submitting_Packages_to_the_Package_Index

Create your accounts

You must create accounts on PyPI Live and PyPI Test before upload your code.

After registration, create a pypirc configuration file at ~/. This file holds your information for authenticating with PyPI, both the live and the test versions.

[distutils]
index-servers =
  pypi
  pypitest

[pypi]
repository: https://pypi.python.org/pypi
username: {{your_username}}
password: {{your_password}}

[pypitest]
repository: https://testpypi.python.org/pypi
username: {{your_username}}
password: {{your_password}}

Prepare your package

Every package on PyPI needs to have a file called setup.py at the root of the directory. If you are using a markdown-formatted README file you’ll also need a setup.cfg file. Also, you’ll want a LICENSE.txt file describing what can be done with your code. So the directory structure would look like this:

root-dir/
  setup.py
  setup.cfg
  LICENSE.txt
  README.md
  mypackage/
    __init__.py
    file1.py
    file2.py
    file3.py

setup.py

This is metadata about your library.

from distutils.core import setup setup( name = 'mypackage', packages = ['mypackage'], version = '0.1', description = 'A random test lib', author = 'Peter Downs', author_email = 'your email address', url = 'https://github.com/yfpeng/mypackage', keywords = ['testing', 'logging', 'example'], classifiers = [], ) read more