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Useful tools for Python developers

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Useful tools for Python developers.

This is mostly an example to show how autopip can be used to install a group of apps with various version specifications, but the author does install it as it conveniently provides all the tools useful for doing Python software development.

To install:

autopip install developer-tools

Which should output something like the following – line 3 is the interesting part:

Installing developer-tools to /home/mzheng/.apps/developer-tools/0.0.3
Auto-update enabled via cron service
This app has defined "autopip" entry points to install: ansible==2.5.4.* ansible-hostmanager twine==1.* workspace-tools
Installing ansible to /home/mzheng/.apps/ansible/2.5.4
Auto-update enabled via cron service
Updating script symlinks in /home/mzheng/.apps/bin
+ ansible
+ ansible-config
+ ansible-connection
+ ansible-console
+ ansible-doc
+ ansible-galaxy
+ ansible-inventory
+ ansible-playbook
+ ansible-pull
+ ansible-vault
Installing ansible-hostmanager to /home/mzheng/.apps/ansible-hostmanager/0.2.3
Auto-update enabled via cron service
Updating script symlinks in /home/mzheng/.apps/bin
+ ah
Installing twine to /home/mzheng/.apps/twine/1.11.0
Auto-update enabled via cron service
Updating script symlinks in /home/mzheng/.apps/bin
+ twine
Installing workspace-tools to /home/mzheng/.apps/workspace-tools/3.2.4
Auto-update enabled via cron service
Updating script symlinks in /home/mzheng/.apps/bin
+ wst

How does it work? You can tell autopip to install other apps by setting an autopip entry point group in setup.py with the list of apps and versions. Versions can be pinned to major or a specific version, or use latest to install the latest version. Take a look at the autopip entry point group in developer-tools’ setup.py

For better security and user experience, it is recommended to pin to a specific version – at least minor – for 3rd party apps. For apps that you own where you have good versioning in the app, then latest works better.

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