Good virtualenv and packaging tutorials for beginner?

[Paul Moore]

On 4 October 2017 at 13:30, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Folks on IRC have suggested using virtualenv to test code under
>> > different python versions. Sadly, I've not found a virtualenv tutorial
>> > I understand. Anyone have a link to a good one?
>>
>> The Python Packaging Authority has a guide
>> <URL:https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-
>> packages/#creating-virtual-environments>
>> which seems good to me.
>>
>> The standard library documentation for the ‘venv’ library
>> <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html> is essential.
>>
>> > The next step will be to figure out how to package a project; a good
>> > tutorial URL would be appreciated on that, too.
>>
>> Follow the documentation maintained by the Python Packaging Authority
>> <URL:https://packaging.python.org/>.
>>
>>
> Ben, thanks! I'm off to print and study...

Leam - if the guide is difficult to follow, feel free to ask here, or
raise issues on the project tracker at
https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/. Most of us
working on packaging are way too involved in the details to know how
it really feels to a newcomer to be faced with all this stuff, so if
you have any comments (or even better, suggestions as to how we could
improve things) that would be immensely valuable.

Paul