Build Your First Open Source Python Project

A step-by-step guide to a working package

Jeff Hale
Towards Data Science
11 min readFeb 25, 2019

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Every software developer and data scientist should go through the exercise of making a package. You’ll learn so much along the way. Just make sure you have some time. 🕰

Making an open source Python package may sound daunting, but you don’t need to be a grizzled veteran. You also don’t need an elaborate product idea. You do need persistence and time. Hopefully this guide will help you need less of both. 😃

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