I am sorry in advance if this is a duplicate of another question (and this is my first question here :) )
I would like to know if we can upload scripts to pip rather than packages.
I am currently writing a code and would like to make it available to the community through pip but I am not sure if this is possible...
When I say package I mean something that we can call inside another code with
import blabla
And script something that we can call from the terminal like any other program.
You can upload scripts, but you have to package them if you want to make it available to the community through a pip install
. That means you'll need to write a setup.py
file, too.
# my_script.py
def main():
...
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
In the setup file:
# setup.py
from setuptools import setup
setup(
...
entry_points={
'console_scripts': ['my_script=my_script:main'],
},
)
There is other stuff you'll need to learn about to upload your script to the Python package index. Check out a packaging guide, such as PyPI Quick and Dirty.