Creating a Python Wheel (.whl) - pathfinder-analytics-uk/dab_project GitHub Wiki

Links and Resources

• Building and Distributing Packages with Setuptools

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Commands

Install setuptools and wheel in your virtual environment

pip install setuptools wheel

Building a wheel

MacOS/Linux

python3 setup.py bdist_wheel

Windows

python setup.py bdist_wheel

Installing the wheel

pip install dist/*.whl

Project Files

setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name="dab_project",
    version="0.0.1",
    description="This contains the code in the ./src directory of the project",
    author="Your Name",
    packages=find_packages(where="./src"),
    package_dir={"":"./src"},
    install_requires=["setuptools"]
)

scratch/module_imports.py

import sys
import os

sys.path.append(os.getcwd())

from citibike.citibike_utils import *