Hypermodern Python Tooling (2nd Release)

✍ Scribed by Claudio Jolowicz

• Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 77
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Keeping up with the Python ecosystem can be daunting. Its developer tooling doesn't provide the same out-of-the-box experience native to languages like Rust and Go. When it comes to long-term project maintenance or collaborating with others, every Python project faces the same problem: how to build reliable workflows beyond local development while staying in sync with the evolving ecosystem.

With this hands-on guide, Python developers will learn how to forge the moving parts of a Python project into an easy-to-use toolchain, using state-of-the-art tools including Poetry, GitHub Actions, Dependabot, pytest, mypy, Flake8, and more. Author Claudio Jolowicz shows you how to create robust Python project structures, complete with unit tests, static analysis, code formatting, type checking, and documentation, as well as continuous integration and delivery.

You'll learn how to

Create open source projects with state-of-the-art infrastructure
Build a custom infrastructure for all Python projects in a company or team
Improve and modernize the infrastructure of an existing Python project
Evaluate modern Python tooling for adoption in existing projects
Use tools for packaging and dependency management
Automate releases, checks and tasks, dependency updates, Python syntax upgrades, and releases to PyPI and TestPyPI
And much more

✦ Table of Contents

1. Installing Python
   Supporting Multiple Versions of Python
   Locating Python Interpreters
   Installing Python on Windows
   The Python Launcher for Windows
   Installing Python on macOS
   Homebrew Python
   The python.org Installers
   Installing Python on Linux
   Fedora Linux
   Ubuntu Linux
   Other Linux Distributions
   The Python Launcher for Unix
   Installing Python with Pyenv
   Installing Python from Anaconda
   Summary
2. Python Environments
   Contents of a Python Environment
   The Interpreter
   Python Modules
   Entry-point Scripts
   The Layout of Python Installations
   The Per-User Environment
   Virtual Environments
   Activation Scripts
   Installing Applications with Pipx
   Finding Python Modules
   Module Objects
   The Module Cache
   Module Specs
   Finders and Loaders
   The Module Path
   Site Packages
   Summary
3. Python Packages
   An Example Application
   Why Packaging?
   Packaging in a Nutshell
   The pyproject.toml File
   Build Frontends and Build Backends
   Wheels and Sdists
   Project Metadata
   Naming Projects
   Versioning Projects
   Single-Sourcing the Project Version
   Entry-point Scripts
   Entry Points
   Authors and Maintainers
   The Description and README
   Keywords and Classifiers
   The Project URLs
   The License
   The Required Python Version
   Dependencies and Optional Dependencies
   Summary
   About the Author