Automate pushing releases to PyPI

[lupino3]

Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/artifacts/pypi?view=vsts&tabs=yaml

• define what triggers publishing to PyPI
• define how to handle version numbers
• define how to handle the changelog
• handle authentication (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/package/twine-authenticate?view=vsts)
• implement pushing to PyPI

[lupino3]

Easy to do with Github Actions: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/guides/building-and-testing-python#publishing-to-package-registries

[lupino3]

Here's a nice article summarizing modern good practices for Python packages: https://antonz.org/python-packaging/

[lupino3]

Actually, modern python packages are based on pyproject.toml - https://peps.python.org/pep-0518/

I heard good things about uv as a package manager: https://docs.astral.sh/[uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/)/