17  Publishing Packages

17.1 Task : Publish a Python Package

17.1.1 Package “istec-p4”

• Use the package you created in the previous task and make it public.
• Publish your package to the TestPyPi repository.
  • Navigate to https://test.pypi.org/ and Register yourself as an user.
• This means your package will be available for everyone (worldwide) to install:

17.1.2 Using Package “istec-p4”

• Later, to install from TestPyPi you will issue this command:

pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ istec-p4

• Later, to install from PyPi you will issue this command:

pip install istec-p4

• Then you can load your package and call the existing functions within that package/module.

from istec.p4.exercises import greetings

# Calling the hello function
greetings.hello()

Note

The official Python packages repository is called PyPi (https://pypi.org/).