Publishing a Python package on PyPI

📅️ Published: October 31, 2019 • 🕣 1 min read

I just published my first package on pypi 😍

Let’s go through some steps that I followed :

Put your python files/classes inside the folder package-name.Also make sure your main class file has the same name package-name.
Add the __init__.py file in the same folder. Use the init file like this.
```
from coderunner.coderunner import Run
```
Now make a file setup.py inside the root of your github folder. Add the following contents in it:

import setuptools

with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
    long_description = fh.read()

setuptools.setup(
    name="plagcheck",
    version="0.1",
    author="Bhupesh Varshney",
    author_email="varshneybhupesh@gmail.com",
    description="A Powerful Moss results scrapper",
    keywords='mosspy moss plagiarism cheat',
    long_description=long_description,
    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
    url="https://github.com/codeclassroom/PlagCheck",
    project_urls={
        "Documentation": "https://github.com/codeclassroom/PlagCheck/blob/master/docs/docs.md",
        "Source Code": "https://github.com/codeclassroom/PlagCheck",
        "Funding": "https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=18082750",
        "Say Thanks!": "https://github.com/codeclassroom/PlagCheck/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=---say-thank-you.md&title=",
    },
    packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
    install_requires=[
        'requests',
        'mosspy',
        'beautifulsoup4',
        'lxml',
    ],
    classifiers=[
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
        'Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools',
        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
    ],
    python_requires='>=3.6',
)

Now make a file setup.cfg. It is used for displaying project description on PyPi.
```
[metadata]
description-file = README.md
```
Install the followig libraries.
```
pip3 install setuptools wheel twine
```
Run the following command.
```
python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
```
Finally upload it to PyPi.
```
twine upload dist/*
```
This will prompt for your PyPi username and password.

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