The forgotten slide: Packaging

In the original Hypermodern Python Blogpost, Poetry was recommended as the preferred tool. There are quite a lot of packaging tools out there which I do not want to go into in depth, instead I recommend Anna-Lena Popkes An unbiased evaluation of environment management and packaging tools. What has emerged as the preferred way to store packaging information is the pyproject.toml file.

There are a number of tools to convert legacy package information into this format.

• setuptools-py2cfg A script for converting setup.py to setup.cfg
• ini2toml which automatically translates .ini/.cfg files into TOML
• validate-pyproject for automated checks on pyproject.toml powered by JSON Schema definitions
• pyproject-fmt to apply a consistent format to pyproject.toml files.
• pyprojectsort enforces consistent formatting of pyproject.toml files, reducing merge request conflicts and saving time otherwise spent on manual formatting.