mareoraft / local-development-of-python-package-and-dep

Imagine you are developing project A, and project A depends on project B which you are also developing. How can you locally develop both at the same time?

This repo just shows a very basic example of that in Python (tested with Python 3.8.8).

repo-b -> This folder is an example of the repo for project B. It exposes a package called b.

repo-a -> This folder is an example of the repo for project A. It imports and uses b.

Directions:

1. cd repo-b
2. run python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel (actually i don't know if this is necessary or not)
3. cd repo-a
4. run pip uninstall --yes b && pip install -e ~/repos/local-development-of-python-package-and-dep/repo-b or similar
5. run python main.py and observe that everything works

So the real secret is the -e or --editable flag.

References:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15031694/installing-python-packages-from-local-file-system-folder-to-virtualenv-with-pip
• https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-your-first-python-package/

local-development-of-python-package-and-dep's Issues

Thanks

Not an issue, but I found no other way of saying thanks for this package. Helped me sort out how to solve some issues I had.

Feel free to remove this issue asap :).