Visual Blocks in Google Colaboratory

Visual Blocks offers a Python package for use within Google Colaboratory notebooks.

For Users

!pip install visualblocks and import visualblocks in your Colaboratory notebooks. See the example notebooks in the directory examples/.

For Developers

!pip install git+https://... in a notebook installs the package straight from the latest, unreleased source in Github. The notebooks in the tests/ directory use this method.

The directory scripts/ contains turnkey scripts for common developer tasks such as building and uploading the Python distribution package.

Build and upload package to TestPyPI

One time setup:

# Install `build`.
$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade build

# Install `twine`, and make sure its binary is in your PATH.
$ python3 -m pip install twine

Steps:

1. Update the version number in pyproject.toml.
2. Run rm -rf build to clean up previous builds.
3. Run scripts/package to build the package.
4. Run scripts/upload to upload the package. You need to have the username and password ready.