Tweeting python packaging tips.
I've begun 'tweeting' python packaging tips . I'm hoping to go up to 100 useful python packaging tips. If you're a twit too, please feel free to join in on the conversations . update : I wrote a little script to download all the python packaging related tweets from twitter. For some reason twitter is only giving me 32 of them... but I've written about 40 so far. Going to run through these at the london python dojo tonight in a mini talk. setup.py build_ext --inplace to compile your extensions inside the source directory. Good for developing inplace distribute 'setup.py develop' Installed pkg points to dev copy, quicker changes during dev. develop -u to remove For pyrex/cython/swig packages, include the generated C code so people do not need to install cython/pyrex/swig. For debugging info set DISTUTILS_DEBUG. os.environ['DISTUTILS_DEBUG'] = "on" OR export DISTUTILS_DEBUG=on Don't put code in package/__init__.py file. Makes debu