Question

I have a project under python and have a setup.py script that build my egg and .exe file for each realease.
I am used to use ant script, where I can define targets easily.

I may miss something, but I cannot find any documentation that explains how to create such commands with distutils.
(Well, I found this actually but this is quite short as a documentation :s)

Here are some examples of what I would like to automate:

• create packages for various platforms (exe, pypi, linux, source)
• build documentation (pdf, html, rst)
• zip my samples, move them to a distant location
• upload new package to pypi
• run tests
• . . .

But most of all, I would like to be able to do it in only one command, just like I would do it with a ant build.

So how do you usually do such tasks with your python projects?
Though I think it would not be relevant to add my setup.py here, I can do it if needed.

Thank you very much !

Answer 1

Have you looked at the Ant Python tasks?

These Ant extensions add some tasks to support Python builds. In
particular, Python compile, unit test execution, pydoc generation, and
executing Python scripts is supported.