How to Develop and publish package at Pypi library

Avik Das
3 min readMay 9, 2021

Let’s start from scratch :

Step : 1

  1. Login to Pypi : https://pypi.org/account/login/

2. Click on mentioned marked below:

3. Create API token for authentication and save it , otherwise you can’t retrieve the key later.

Step : 2

4. Create folder structure:

5. Let’s discuss about contains of necessary files as below :

a. setup.py

import setuptools

with open(“README.md”, “r”, encoding=”utf-8") as fh:
long_description = fh.read()

setuptools.setup(
name=”pkglogger”, # Replace with your own username
version=”0.0.11",
author=”Avik Das”,
author_email=”avik_das_2017@cba.isb.edu”,
description=”This package help you to keep logs”,
long_description=long_description,
long_description_content_type=”text/markdown”,
url=”https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject",
project_urls={
“Bug Tracker”: “https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject/issues",
},
classifiers=[
“Programming Language :: Python :: 2”,
“License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License”,
“Operating System :: OS Independent”,
],
package_dir={“”: “pkglogger”},
packages=setuptools.find_packages(where=”pkglogger”),
python_requires=”>=2.0",
)

b. README.md :

**#Developer : Avik Das**

  • *##Steps to run the package :**

1.pip install pkglogger==<version number>
2. **from** pkglogger **import** pkglogger
3. pkglogger.logger(‘path/’,’’,’’,’’,’’,’’,’’)
4. *var1* = directory where log file will be created
5. *var2* = Logger number
6. *var3* = Function name
7. *var4* = Task status
8. *var5* = Error
9. *var6* = Output path
10. *var7* = URL Link

c.pyproject.toml: ( Important step )

[build-system]
requires = [
“setuptools>=42”,
“wheel”,
“datetime”
]
build-backend = “setuptools.build_meta”

Here , mentioned all necessary packages that need to be imported while running this package after importing.

Step: 3

6. Open “cmd” / “powershell”.

7. Set the path within the package directory :

for cmd : cd /d <path>

for powershell : cd <path>

8. Run following commands sequentially :

a. py -m pip install — upgrade build

b. py -m build ( Now run this command from the same directory where pyproject.toml is located )

After this command, following files will be created :

Note : Before next command, check within “dist” ( generated by build command ) file whether the “Core Code” is there or not with “__init__.py” file within “.tar” file as shown above.

c. py -m pip install — user — upgrade twine

d. py -m twine upload — repository testpypi dist/*

You will be prompted for a username and password. For the username, use __token__. For the password, use the token value, including the pypi- prefix. Use mouse right click for pasting the API Key in cmd/ powershell.

Now, check your pypi account where you can get to see your package.

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