I have the following setup for my python package:
📦my_package
┣ 📂src
┃ ┗ 📜__init__.py
┣ 📜setup.cfg
┗ 📜pyproject.toml
The __init__.py
is empty, the pyproject.toml
and the setup.cfg
contain example output from the PyPi documentation page (content shown below).
Now, for uploading to PyPi and for packing the python project, I run the command
python -m build
This gives me a new directory dist
(in my_package
) containing a Test-0.0.0.tar.gz
. All this is expected. But when I open the Test-0.0.0.tar.gz
, I get the following content:
📦Test-0.0.0.tar.gz
┗ 📂C:
┗ 📂path
┗ 📂to
┗ 📂my
┗ 📂dev-directory
┗ 📂my_package
┗ 📂dist
┗ 📂tmp<some other characters>
┗ 📜Test-0.0.0.tar
As you can see, the .tar.gz
file contains the path on my local machine which is, obviously, not very privacy friendly. I absolutely do not want to upload files containing information about my private file tree structure. And I guess, this is also not intended. Plus, as far as I know, gzip
does not allow to compress directories directly.
So my question is: What am I doing wrong in my build process?
PS: As you may have guessed by the document tree, I am developing on Windows - which might be important. My Python version is 3.7.1, installed via Miniconda3.
pyproject.toml
[build-system]
requires = [
"setuptools>=42",
"wheel"
]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
setup.cfg
[metadata]
name=Test
[options]
package_dir =
= src
__init__.py
is empty.
I updated my python to version 3.9, now everything works. I tried to find an issue on the official GitHub repository, but I didn't find it. Still, this is a very weird behaviour.