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   :description: Python project and package management: what you need
                 to consider to turn your program into a package
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              management, package management, project management,
              agile, unit testing, pytest, virtual environment, pip,
              venv


Python: Project/Package Management
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      * * **Duration**
	* 1-2 days
      * * **Language**
	* Trainer language is English or German
      * * **Material**
	* * :doc:`/trainings/material/soup/python/swdev/group`
	  * :doc:`Complete Python material
            </trainings/material/soup/python/group>`
      * * **Related**
	* * :doc:`basics`
	  * :doc:`advanced`
	  * :doc:`misc`
      * * **Booking**
	* :doc:`/trainings/booking`

Course Outline
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While the focus of :doc:`basics` and :doc:`advanced` is on
*programming* and *using the language most effectively* (i.e., *fun*),
this is not enough. Any nontrivial project also needs to consider
aspects that are not exactly that kind of fun:

* *Code quality* and *testing*
* *Structure*
* *Packaging*
* *Dependency management*

This course covers these aspects by providing insight into Python's
rich set of non-fun tools.

* Python Package Index (PyPI), and package installation
* Virtual environments
* ``setuptools``
* Unittesting (either ``unittest`` or ``pytest`` will be used)

Prerequisites
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The attendees should be clearly Devops friendly, so to say, and fluent
on the commandline (can be learned in
:doc:`/trainings/repertoire/linux-prog/linux-basics`). Python
programming is sure helpful, especially as unit testing is part of the
course. (Can be learned :doc:`here <basics>`.)