Package

Once you’re done testing and documenting your project, you may want to package and distribute it so that other people can install, import, and use it. Poetry can help you upload a package to the Python Package Index (PyPI). You only get one shot to publish a specific version on PyPI, however. If you make a mistake, you have to publish a new version. That’s why they made a TestPyPI where you can overwrite a version until you get it right.

Getting started

Create accounts on both PYPI and TestPyPI. Remember your username and password for both.

Check that Poetry already knows about the TestPyPI repository:

$ poetry config repositories.test
{'url': 'https://test.pypi.org/legacy/'}

If it doesn’t, you can add it:

$ poetry config repositories.test https://test.pypi.org/legacy/

Give Poetry your credentials for both of your accounts:

$ poetry config http-basic.pypi ${username} ${password}
$ poetry config http-basic.test ${username} ${password}

Publishing

If you’ve already published the version that is named in your pyproject.toml, then you’ll need to pick the next version. Poetry can help with that:

$ poetry version
$ poetry version minor
$ poetry version major

Build your project:

$ poetry build

Publish to TestPyPI:

$ poetry publish --repository test

At this point, you should be able to create another project, install your package as a dependency, import it, and test it. If you use Poetry to manage that project, you’ll need to add TestPyPI as a source in its pyproject.toml:

[[tool.poetry.source]]
name = "testpypi"
url = "https://test.pypi.org/simple"

Once you feel confident your package is in good working order, publish it to PyPI:

$ poetry publish