Creating a setup.py
¶
README.rst
and long_description
¶
The setup(long_description=...)
field of setup.py
contains valid reStructuredText
This is “juice” of your package documentation on pypi.
Reading this dinamically from a README.rst is usually a good idea and makes your project have an uniform introduction on both pypi and github.
Declare Trove Classifiers¶
Trove is an open-source project that attemps to classify a large package repository.
The existing classifiers are a derived from FreshMeat and SourceForge classifiers.
You can learn more at PEP 301 or pypi.org/classifiers.