Introduction to Packaging Python Software

Another response of the wizards, when faced with a new and unique situation, was to look through their libraries to see if it had ever happened before. This was…a good survival trait. It meant that in times of danger you spent the day sitting very quietly in a building with very thick walls.

— Terry Pratchett

The more software we write, the more we come to think of programming languages as a way to build and combine libraries. Every widely used language now has an online repository from which people can download and install those libraries. This lesson shows you how to use Python’s tools to create and share libraries of your own.