Creating makefiles in python

Question

I have two python programs. say a.py and b.py. I build an index in a.py and then run b.py which import a.py.

I want to make a python makefile to install the two porgrams such as I go to my makefile and run :

./install - it installs the project in current directory ./a.py - interprets a.py ./b.py - interprets b.py

Any idea how to make this or pointers where I could find resource for this ?

Answer 1

To get started with python distutils, you just need to create a setup.py file. See the python reference for the documentation of setup.py, and see a real example here.

Once you've made a setup.py file that is appropriate to your project structure, you can install the project by running python setup.py install. See this for additional commands.