Python Dissemination: Summary and Setup

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This lesson teaches how to share Python code, both in the form of packages, and reproducible scripts. The teaching philosophy is to cover “good enough” practices, with more content linked out when necessary.

Knowledge of the interactive terminal or a Jupyter instance suffices.

PYTHON 

a = [3,5,6.0]

def mysquarer(_a):
    for x in _a:
        x=x**2
    return _a

mysquarer(a)

Navigation of the file system through a terminal will suffice, as well as remembering that everything is a file on Unix systems, as far as the contents of the lesson at any rate.

BASH 

# get files in directory
ls
# get directory name
pwd
# view first few lines of a file
head readme.org

Software setup

Details

We basically require pixi and uv. For conciseness, we reproduce the most direct instructions below.

Technically any Python interpreter suffices, here we use pixi to handle system dependencies and run tasks, with uv for managing Python dependencies and environments.

Accounts required

To finalize publishing to an index 1 we need:

A Git instance in the cloud
Any of Github, Gitlab, Sourcehut etc. would work, Github is recommended.
An index account
For the tutorial Test PyPI will suffice, for production, an account on PyPI would be required as well.