If you want more information about Poetry you can read the following articles:

• Python projects with Poetry and VSCode. Part 1
• Python projects with Poetry and VSCode. Part 2
• Python projects with Poetry and VSCode. Part 3

For a comprehensive guide to UV, the lightning-fast Python package manager, read:UV: The Lightning-Fast Python Package Manager.

Introduction

The setup script is the center of all activity in building, distributing, and installing modules using the Distutils. The main purpose of the setup script is to describe your module distribution to the Distutils, so that the various commands that operate on your modules do the right thing.

For a comprehensive guide on handling file and directory paths, which is essential for managing project structures, see theFile and directory Paths page.

Thesetup.py file is at the heart of a Python project. It describes all the metadata about your project. There are quite a few fields you can add to a project to give it a rich set of metadata describing the project. However, there are only three required fields: name, version, and packages. The name field must be unique if you wish to publish your package on the Python Package Index (PyPI). The version field keeps track of different releases of the project. The package’s field describes where you’ve put the Python source code within your project.

This allows you to easily install Python packages. Often it’s enough to write:

python setup.pyinstall

and module will install itself.

Example

Our initial setup.py will also include information about the license and will re-use the README.txt file for the long_description field. This will look like:

from distutils.coreimport setupsetup(   name='pythonCheatsheet',   version='0.1',   packages=['pipenv',],   license='MIT',   long_description=open('README.txt').read(),)

Find more information visit theofficial documentation.

Relevant links

• Virtual Environments
• File and directory Paths
• UV: The Lightning-Fast Python Package Manager
• Python projects with Poetry and VSCode. Part 1
• Python projects with Poetry and VSCode. Part 2
• Python projects with Poetry and VSCode. Part 3
• import()

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