Inside the Cheeseshop: How Python Packaging Works
summary
A compact history and troubleshooting map: explains how distutils gave source dists and led to setuptools/easy_install and eggs, why pip drops eggs and installs sdists, how wheel distribution (PEP 427) speeds installs, why twine is needed to upload securely, and how the new Warehouse replaced the old PyPI (growth from ~3,000 to >130,000 packages, production launch April 2018). Covers PEP 517/518 build backends, pipfile + lock for reproducible installs, and Conda for non‑Python deps.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 6:25Problem: How do I find Python code?
- 13:19Solution: setuptools
- 14:46Problem: easy_install problems
- 16:02Problem: Application dependencies?
- 18:12Solution: The Wheel Distribution
- 23:27Solution: General care & maintenance
- 25:17Problem: Reproducible Environments
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