This episode is a story about packaging, and flit, tox, pytest, and coverage.

Python makes it easy to build simple tools for all kinds of tasks.

When you want to take a script from "just a script" to maintainable package, there are a few steps, but none of it's hard.

Also, the structure of the code layout changes to help with the growth and support.

Instead of just talking about this from memory, I thought it'd be fun to create a new project and walk through the steps, and report back in a kind of time lapse episode. It should be fun.

Here are the steps we walk through:

Links:

• submark repo: A Subset of Markdown
• Flit documentation
• Coverage.py documentation
• tox documentation