stock-catcher 0.2.0

Read the latest stock news

Stock catcher

This repo contains a little script which reads the french CAC40 stock tickers, and get the basic info of these stocks.

We use this project to learn how to:

• Prepare your Python package for publication
• Handle versioning of your package
• Build your package and upload it to PyPI
• Understand and use different build systems

You can find the main doc on how to Prepare your Python package for publication here.

The python packaging standard is reviewed by Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs), and implemented by the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) working group.

The most important documents that define how Python packaging works are the following PEPs:

• PEP 427 describes how wheels should be packaged.
• PEP 440 describes how version numbers should be parsed.
• PEP 508 describes how dependencies should be specified.
• PEP 517 describes how a build backend should work.
• PEP 518 describes how a build system should be specified.
• PEP 621 describes how project metadata should be written.
• PEP 660 describes how editable installs should be performed.

Test the package

After installation, you can test the package by running the below command

# install the package
pip install stock_catcher

# run the command
stock_catcher