/local-development-of-python-package-and-dep

Primary LanguagePython

Imagine you are developing project A, and project A depends on project B which you are also developing. How can you locally develop both at the same time?

This repo just shows a very basic example of that in Python (tested with Python 3.8.8).

repo-b -> This folder is an example of the repo for project B. It exposes a package called b.

repo-a -> This folder is an example of the repo for project A. It imports and uses b.

Directions:

  1. cd repo-b
  2. run python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel (actually i don't know if this is necessary or not)
  3. cd repo-a
  4. run pip uninstall --yes b && pip install -e ~/repos/local-development-of-python-package-and-dep/repo-b or similar
  5. run python main.py and observe that everything works

So the real secret is the -e or --editable flag.

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