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Creating a setup.py File

Explore how to create a basic setup.py file for Python packages, test it locally or in a virtual environment, and understand the differences between setuptools and distutils to prepare your package for PyPI registration.

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We will start out by creating a super simple setup.py script. Here’s a bare-bones one:

Python
from distutils.core import setup
setup(name='mymath',
      version='0.1',
      packages=['mymath', 'mymath.adv'],
      )

This is something you might write for a package internally. To ...