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Python package distribution overview

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Have you ever heard about such words when you working with Python? easy_install, pip, distutils, setuptools, sdist, bdist, egg, wheel, twine, pypi let's structuring knowledge about it.

Package managers

  • pip (using nowadays, was added in 2008)
  • easy_install (was added in 2004, don't support packages uninstall)

The tool pip can be used to install a package from PyPI. It replaces an earlier tool named easy_install.

Build managers

  • setuptools (2004)
  • distutils (1998) Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that allow developers to more easily build and distribute Python packages

Formats

  • sdist (source distribution)
  • bdist (built distribution)
    • egg (bdist_egg)
    • wheel (bdist_wheel)

What are Eggs and Wheels?

Both are built distribution formats for packages. Wheels have replaced Eggs as the preferred format. Installer pip supports only Wheels while Eggs can be installed with the older easy_install tool. Wheels don't include compiled Python files. In a built distribution, files and metadata are included.

Deploy infrastructure

  • PyPI (package repository)
  • twine (Twine is the tool that has to be used to publish packages on PyPI)

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