Command line helper to manage modern python projects

Command line helper to manage standard pyproject.toml based projects. The interface is built with click and can run multiple commands in sequence.

pydev clean build dump

This project is exploratory and may be usefull as a basis for custom workflows.

Usage

Usage: python -m pydev [OPTIONS] COMMAND1 [ARGS]... [COMMAND2 [ARGS]...]...

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  build    Build project wheel
  bump     Bump version in pyproject
  clean    Deletes all dist files
  dump     Dump wheel and sdist contents
  info     Project info including pypi releases
  prune    Delete all runtime folders
  publish  Publish project to pypi
  release  Build and publish project to pypi
  tasks    Inject tasks.py template into project

Installation

The pydev tool is best installed as a script in a separate ennvironment using pipx or uv tool.

pipx install pydev-toy

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