PyPI Packaging

• ez-txt2html

  3 1 8.4 PowerShell

  ezTxt2Html is a simple open-source Python program that converts .txt or .md into HTML files (.html). You can use it to convert individual text files or all text files in a directory.

Next up I added some build related details to my pyproject.toml which included some version info, general project details as well as some instructions on how to create a build. Most importantly was adding:

• warehouse

  278 3,489 9.7 Python

  The Python Package Index

  

From there, I needed to learn a bit about PyPi or Python Package Index, which is the home for all the wonderful packages that you know if you have ever run the handy pip install command. PyPi has a pretty quick and easy onboarding, which requires a secured account be created and, for the purposes of submitting packages from CLI, an API token be generated. This can be done in your PyPi profile. Once logg just navigate to https://pypi.org/manage/account/ and scroll down to the API tokens section. Click “Add Token” and follow the few steps to generate an API token which is your access point to uploading packages. With all this in place, I was able to use twine to handle the package upload. First I needed to install twine, again as simple as pip install twine. In order for twine to access my API token during the package upload process, it needed to read it from .pypirc file that contains the token info. For some that file may exist already, for me I was required to create it. Working in windows I simply used a text editor to create it in my home user directory ($HOME/.pypirc). The file contents had a TOML like format looked like this:

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