setuptools

Setuptools is for uploading to PyPi. To create self-contained executable files, use pyinstaller.

PROJECT
├── PROJECT # (1)
│   └── init.py
└── setup.py # (2)

1 directory, 2 files

1. Additional code files will be placed in here
2. Containing a call to setuptools.setup()
   setup.py

   import setuptools
   
   setuptools.setup(
       name='funniest',
       version='0.1',
       description='The funniest joke in the world',
       url='http://github.com/storborg/funniest',
       author='Flying Circus',
       author_email='flyingcircus@example.com',
       license='MIT',
       packages=['funniest'],
       zip_safe=False
   )
   

   If the package has dependencies, they can be added by appending an install_requires keyword argument passing an array of the module names

   setup(
     install_requires=[ 'markdown', ],
   )
   

Reserve the name, upload package metadata, and create the pypi.python.org webpage

python setup.py register

Create a source distribution, producing a tarball inside the top-level directory

python setup.py sdist

Upload the source distribution

python setup.py sdist upload

Do all the above in a single step

python setup.py register sdist upload