Question

am new to Python packaging and am trying to work out which flags I need to get something uploaded properly into PyPi. distribute seems to building things them deleting them straight away. How do I stop that from happening?

Here is the traceback:

tim@falcon:~/Code/slate$ python setup.py sdist
running sdist
running egg_info
writing requirements to src/slate.egg-info/requires.txt
writing src/slate.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to src/slate.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to src/slate.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing manifest file 'src/slate.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
creating slate-0.2.3
creating slate-0.2.3/src
creating slate-0.2.3/src/slate
creating slate-0.2.3/src/slate.egg-info
making hard links in slate-0.2.3...
hard linking .gitignore -> slate-0.2.3
hard linking LICENSE -> slate-0.2.3
hard linking README -> slate-0.2.3
hard linking setup.py -> slate-0.2.3
hard linking src/slate/__init__.py -> slate-0.2.3/src/slate
hard linking src/slate/slate.py -> slate-0.2.3/src/slate
hard linking src/slate.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> slate-0.2.3/src/slate.egg-info
hard linking src/slate.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> slate-0.2.3/src/slate.egg-info
hard linking src/slate.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> slate-0.2.3/src/slate.egg-info
hard linking src/slate.egg-info/requires.txt -> slate-0.2.3/src/slate.egg-info
hard linking src/slate.egg-info/top_level.txt -> slate-0.2.3/src/slate.egg-info
Writing slate-0.2.3/setup.cfg
tar -cf dist/slate-0.2.3.tar slate-0.2.3
gzip -f9 dist/slate-0.2.3.tar
removing 'slate-0.2.3' (and everything under it)

Answer 1

This message seems to indicate that the script removed a temporary directory created to do your package… The .tar.gz file is not removed. Check your dist directory for it.

To upload you can probably use distutils-documented way:

python setup.py sdist upload

Some good reads:

• Distutils — Official documentation on how to distribute python packages
• The hitchhiker’s guide to python packaging