Glossary

Devpi

A powerful PyPi-compatible server and a complimentary command line tool to drive packaging, testing and release activities with Python.

See also

• Official devpi documentation

Entry-Points

Entry points are a mechanism for an installed distribution to advertise components it provides to be discovered and used by other code.

See also

Entry points specification

extras_require

Setuptools provides an extras_require option which takes a dictionary mapping unique keywords to a list of optional dependencies.

See also

Setuptools - Optional Dependencies

Pip

A recommended tool for installing Python packages.

See also

https://pip.pypa.io

Python

A programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively.

See also

https://www.python.org/

PyPi

The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language.

See also

https://pypi.org/

Setuptools

Setuptools is a library designed to facilitate packaging of Python projects.

See also

https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Virtualenv

A tool to create isolated Python environments.

See also

https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/

Wiz

Package manager to run command in reliable environment.

See also

Wiz