nlesc_mdash developer documentation

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Development install

```shell

Create a virtual environment, e.g. with

python -m venv env

activate virtual environment

source env/bin/activate

make sure to have a recent version of pip and setuptools

python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

(from the project root directory)

install nlesc_mdash as an editable package

python -m pip install --no-cache-dir --editable .

install development dependencies

python -m pip install --no-cache-dir --editable .[dev]

install documentation dependencies only

python -m pip install --no-cache-dir --editable .[docs] ```

Afterwards check that the install directory is present in the PATH environment variable.

Running the tests

There are two ways to run tests.

The first way requires an activated virtual environment with the development tools installed:

shell pytest -v

The second is to use tox, which can be installed separately (e.g. with pip install tox), i.e. not necessarily inside the virtual environment you use for installing nlesc_mdash, but then builds the necessary virtual environments itself by simply running:

shell tox

Testing with tox allows for keeping the testing environment separate from your development environment. The development environment will typically accumulate (old) packages during development that interfere with testing; this problem is avoided by testing with tox.

Test coverage

In addition to just running the tests to see if they pass, they can be used for coverage statistics, i.e. to determine how much of the package's code is actually executed during tests. In an activated virtual environment with the development tools installed, inside the package directory, run:

shell coverage run

This runs tests and stores the result in a .coverage file. To see the results on the command line, run

shell coverage report

coverage can also generate output in HTML and other formats; see coverage help for more information.## Running linters locally

For linting and sorting imports we will use ruff. Running the linters requires an activated virtual environment with the development tools installed.

```shell

linter

ruff check .

linter with automatic fixing

ruff check . --fix ```

To fix readability of your code style you can use yapf.## Generating the API docs

shell cd docs make html

The documentation will be in docs/_build/html

If you do not have make use

shell sphinx-build -b html docs docs/_build/html

To find undocumented Python objects run

shell cd docs make coverage cat _build/coverage/python.txt

To test snippets in documentation run

shell cd docs make doctest

Versioning

Bumping the version across all files is done with bump-my-version, e.g.

shell bump-my-version bump major # bumps from e.g. 0.3.2 to 1.0.0 bump-my-version bump minor # bumps from e.g. 0.3.2 to 0.4.0 bump-my-version bump patch # bumps from e.g. 0.3.2 to 0.3.3

Making a release

This section describes how to make a release in 3 parts:

1. preparation
2. making a release on PyPI
3. making a release on GitHub

(1/3) Preparation

1. Update the (don't forget to update links at bottom of page).
2. Verify that the information in CITATION.cff is correct.
3. Make sure the version has been updated.
4. Run the unit tests with pytest -v

(2/3) PyPI

In a new terminal:

```shell

OPTIONAL: prepare a new directory with fresh git clone to ensure the release

has the state of origin/main branch

cd $(mktemp -d nlescmdash.XXXXXX) git clone git@github.com:NLeSC/nlescmdash .

make sure to have a recent version of pip and the publishing dependencies

python -m pip install --upgrade pip python -m pip install .[publishing]

create the source distribution and the wheel

python -m build

upload to test pypi instance (requires credentials)

python -m twine upload --repository testpypi dist/* ```

Visit https://test.pypi.org/project/nlesc_mdash and verify that your package was uploaded successfully. Keep the terminal open, we'll need it later.

In a new terminal, without an activated virtual environment or an env directory:

```shell cd $(mktemp -d nlesc_mdash-test.XXXXXX)

prepare a clean virtual environment and activate it

python -m venv env source env/bin/activate

make sure to have a recent version of pip and setuptools

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

install from test pypi instance:

python -m pip -v install --no-cache-dir \ --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ \ --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple nlesc_mdash ```

Check that the package works as it should when installed from pypitest.

Then upload to pypi.org with:

```shell

Back to the first terminal,

FINAL STEP: upload to PyPI (requires credentials)

python -m twine upload dist/* ```

(3/3) GitHub

Don't forget to also make a release on GitHub.