Prompts

When you create your package, you are prompted to enter these values.

Templated values

The following appear in various parts of your generated project. Do not worry entering your username, full name and email address, these values are genuinely required in files including AUTHORS.rst, setup.py, __init__.py and the package’s documentation.

full_name

Your full name

email

Your email address

github_username

Your GitHub username

project_name

The name of your new python package project. This is used in documentation, so spaces and any characters are fine here

project_slug

The namespace of your Python package. This should be Python import-friendly. Typically, it is the slugified version of project_name

pypi_username

Your PyPI account username

version

The starting version number of the package