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Project file syntax#

Project metadata#

There are several differences from the metadata of setuptools:

  • readme is the file name of README file and PDM can derive the content type automatically.
  • author and maintainer is a combination of name and email address in the form of Name <email>.

Package version#

You can specify a file source for version field like: version = {from = "pdm/__init__.py"}, in this form, the version will be read from the __version__ variable in that file.

Include and exclude pacakge files#

The way of specifying include and exclude files are simple, they are given as a list of glob patterns:

includes = [
    "**/*.json",
    "mypackage/",
]
excludes = [
    "mypackage/_temp/*"
]

If neither includes or excludes is given, PDM is also smart enough to include top level packages and all data files in them. Packages can also lie in src directory that PDM can find it.

Dependency specification#

Named requirement#

requests = ">=2.20.0"
pytz = "*"

"*" means there is no constraint of what version should be used.

Requirement given by file URL#

pdm = {url="https://github.com/frostming/marko/archive/0.2.6.zip"}

Requirement given by local path#

requests = {path="/path/to/requests"}

In this case, the path should be a directory on local machine. If you want to install a local file, use url = "file:///path/to/file instead.

VCS requirement#

requests = {git="https://github.com/frostming/marko.git", ref="master"}

PDM supports all VCS schemes that are supported by pip.

Editable requirement#

Both VCS requirement and local directory requirement can have an editable = true flag, meaning it should be installed in editable mode.

Requirement with markers#

requests = {version=">=2.20.0", marker="os_name!='nt'"}

Console scripts#

The following content:

[tool.pdm.cli]
mycli = "mycli.__main__:main"

will be translated to setuptools style:

entry_points = {
    'console_scripts': [
        'mycli=mycli.__main__:main'
    ]
}

Entry points#

Other types of entry points are given by [tool.pdm.entry_points.<type>] section, with the same format of [tool.pdm.cli] format:

[tool.pdm.entry_points.pytest11]
myplugin = "mypackage.plugin:pytest_plugin"

Build C extensions#

Currently building C extensions still relies on setuptools. You should write a python script which contains a function named build and accepts the parameter dictionary of setup() as the only argument. Update the dictionary with your ext_modules settings in the function.

Here is an example taken from MarkupSafe:

# build.py
from setuptools import Extension

ext_modules = [Extension("markupsafe._speedups", ["src/markupsafe/_speedups.c"])]

def build(setup_kwargs):
    setup_kwargs.update(ext_modules=ext_modules)

Now, specify the build script path via build in the pyproject.toml:

# pyproject.toml
[tool.pdm]
build = "build.py"