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11 PEP 301: Package Index and Metadata for
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Support for the long-requested Python catalog makes its first
appearance in 2.3.
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The heart of the catalog is the new Distutils <code>register</code> command.
Running <code>python setup.py register</code> will collect the metadata
describing a package, such as its name, version, maintainer,
description, &c., and send it to a central catalog server. The
resulting catalog is available from <a class="url" href="http://www.python.org/pypi">http://www.python.org/pypi</a>.
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To make the catalog a bit more useful, a new optional
<var>classifiers</var> keyword argument has been added to the Distutils
<tt class="function">setup()</tt> function. A list of
<a class="ulink" href="http://catb.org/~esr/trove/"
>Trove</a>-style
strings can be supplied to help classify the software.
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Here's an example <span class="file">setup.py</span> with classifiers, written to be compatible
with older versions of the Distutils:
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from distutils import core
kw = {'name': "Quixote",
'version': "0.5.1",
'description': "A highly Pythonic Web application framework",
# ...
}
if (hasattr(core, 'setup_keywords') and
'classifiers' in core.setup_keywords):
kw['classifiers'] = \
['Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content',
'Environment :: No Input/Output (Daemon)',
'Intended Audience :: Developers'],
core.setup(**kw)
</pre></div>
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The full list of classifiers can be obtained by running
<code>python setup.py register --list-classifiers</code>.
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<dt><a href="http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0301.html"
title="Package Index and Metadata for Distutils"
>PEP 301, <em>Package Index and Metadata for Distutils</em></a>
<dd>Written and
implemented by Richard Jones.
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