Wrap-up

Developing Python Packages

James Fulton

Climate informatics researcher

Small beginnings

• NumPy - started by Travis Oliphant
• Pandas - started by Wes McKinney

Recap

• Modules vs subpackages vs packages
• Package structure and __init__.py
• Absolute and relative imports
• Documentation with pyment
• Code style with flake8
• Making your package installable with setup.py
• Dependencies with install_requires and requirements.txt

• Supporting files like LICENSE, README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and HISTORY.md
• Building and uploading distributions to PyPI with twine
• Testing with pytest and tox
• Using package templates with cookiecutter
• Efficient package care with Makefiles

Further topics

Advanced pytest

Unit Testing for Data Science in Python

Package website

ReadtheDocs and Sphinx

Well done!

Developing Python Packages