Distutils-SIG February 2017

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bdist_deb always creates 'all' architecture package for me

by varun mittal

Hi all I am totally new to debian package building. Need to create a deb package from source, for Ubuntu. The package would contain mostly python code and a singular C file. My control file in 'debian' directory reads 'any' for Architecture. But running bdist_deb always creates _all.deb package. How to control that ? I tried forcing it to 'amd64' too, but didn't succeed Thanks n regards Mittal

3 years, 11 months

pypa.io PR to document the actual current spec update process

by Nick Coghlan

Hi folks, The "Specifications" section in the pypa.io developer's manual had fallen behind the process we've actually been using in recent times, so I've finally submitted a PR to bring it up to date: https://github.com/pypa/pypa.io/pull/19 General questions about the change are best asked on the list, while detailed comments on the specific wording in the PR are best submitted through GitHub. Cheers, Nick. P.S. See https://github.com/pypa/pypa.io/issues/11 for some additional background -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan(a)gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

3 years, 11 months

Adding the "Description-Content-Type" metadata field

by Nick Coghlan

Hi folks, Marc Abramowitz has prepared a PR for the Core Metadata section of the specifications page [1] that adds a new "Description-Content-Type" field: https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/pull/258 The draft text has now reached the point where I'm prepared to accept it, so this thread offers folks one last chance to provide feedback before we make it official. Full text of the new subsection ========================================= Description-Content-Type ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A string containing the format of the distribution's description, so that tools can intelligently render the description. Historically, PyPI supported descriptions in plain text and `reStructuredText (reST) <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html>`_, and could render reST into HTML. However, it is common for distribution authors to write the description in `Markdown <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>`_ (`RFC 7763 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7763>`_) as many code hosting sites render Markdown READMEs, and authors would reuse the file for the description. PyPI didn't recognize the format and so could not render the description correctly. This resulted in many packages on PyPI with poorly-rendered descriptions when Markdown is left as plain text, or worse, was attempted to be rendered as reST. This field allows the distribution author to specify the format of their description, opening up the possibility for PyPI and other tools to be able to render Markdown and other formats. The format of this field is the same as the ``Content-Type`` header in HTTP (e.g.: `RFC 1341 <https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/4_Content-Type.html>`_). Briefly, this means that it has a ``type/subtype`` part and then it can optionally have a number of parameters: Format:: Description-Content-Type: <type>/<subtype>; charset=<charset>[; <param_name>=<param value> ...] The ``type/subtype`` part has only a few legal values: - ``text/plain`` - ``text/x-rst`` - ``text/markdown`` The ``charset`` parameter can be used to specify whether the character set in use is UTF-8, ASCII, etc. If ``charset`` is not provided, then it is recommended that the implementation (e.g.: PyPI) treat the content as UTF-8. Other parameters might be specific to the chosen subtype. For example, for the ``markdown`` subtype, there is a ``variant`` parameter that allows specifying the variant of Markdown in use, such as: - ``CommonMark`` for `CommonMark` <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7764#section-3.5>`_ - ``GFM`` for `GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7764#section-3.2>`_ - ``Original`` for `Gruber's original Markdown syntax <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7763#section-6.1.4>`_ Example:: Description-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Example:: Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst; charset=UTF-8 Example:: Description-Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=CommonMark Example:: Description-Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=GFM Example:: Description-Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=Original If a ``Description-Content-Type`` is not specified or it's set to an unrecognized value, then the assumed content type is ``text/x-rst; charset=UTF-8``. If the ``charset`` is not specified or it's set to an unrecognized value, then the assumed ``charset`` is ``UTF-8``. If the subtype is ``markdown`` and ``variant`` is not specified or it's set to an unrecognized value, then the assumed ``variant`` is ``CommonMark``. ========================================= [1] https://packaging.python.org/specifications/#core-metadata Regards, Nick. P.S. I know I still need to update https://www.pypa.io/en/latest/specifications/ to reflect the ability to make small backwards compatible adjustments to the specifications without a PEP, so I'll get that sorted today, since I've been talking about it for approximately forever. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan(a)gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

3 years, 11 months

install questions and help requested. ---pyautogui

by Michael Strain

I am looking for a simple short cut where I can automate a few clicks with a button via python automate the boring stuff. I go through data then I am seeking a short cut for the click inorder to be time efficient. I am having some errors. I am new to python. I am using windows. I have read that I have to run 'pip install pyautogui' I have used windows cmd. python shell and python command. I get a syntax error from python and a nothing from windows. Where should I put this? I found the pyautogui program and downloaded it and unzipped it. I try to jump straight to the import script of pyautogui like SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module> import pyautogui ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyautogui' >>> pip install pyautogui SyntaxError: invalid syntax Sincerely, Michael G. Strain Jr.

3 years, 11 months

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Distutils-SIG February 2017