[Doc-SIG] better documentation on how to upload to PyPI

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Tue Mar 2 17:28:50 CET 2010


There's an effort to create a new set of documentation for packaging:
http://guide.python-distribute.org/

Ideally this work will end up on docs.python.org at some point.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Dr. Phillip M. Feldman <
pfeldman at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> The procedure for uploading to PyPI is not well documented.  I had to read
> several different docs and do some experimentation before coming up with
> the
> following:
>
> Procedure for uploading to the Python Package Index (PyPI):
>
> 1. Create setup.py file.
> 2. Create ".pypirc" file if it does not already exist.
> 3. Launch IPython.
> 4. Issue the command "run setup register"
> 5. Issue the command "run setup sdist upload".
> 6. Log into PyPI and adjust visibility of old versions as necessary.
>
> I'd like to see this list of steps (or something similar) in the docs.
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