Python Package Development

Context

I'm developing a few Python packages, which are obviously under version control (personally hosted GIT repo in this case, but that's not relevant). Now, the package is in active development, but I usually work in different machines: my personal laptop and workstations at the lab. In the lab machines I don't have root access, so I work on a virtualenv, where I can install python packages using pip install.

How?

To facilitate the development in every machine I work on, this is the basic setup:

1. Create a setup.py file in the repo, to use setuptools to install the package (this will also help you if you want to use PyPI later on to distribute your package)
2. Clone the repo in every machine you will develop/use your package
3. For every machine:
   1. activate the virtualenv
   2. cd into the cloned repo
   3. Type python setup.py develop