Sharing a package

You now have a python package that you can use independently in your analyses. This package lives somehwere in your system (the tstools/) directory and your can install it in a project’s virtualenv using setuptools (pip install).

We now look at ways your can share your package with people interested in using your pkg. This includes yourself.

Sharing means making it straightforward to both

  • Obtain the source code
  • Install and use the package

In practice this means that anyone will be able to “pip install” your package:

pip install tstools