Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
- OSI Approved :: BSD License
Programming Language
- Python
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3 :: Only
- Python :: 3.8
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
- Python :: 3.13
- Python :: Implementation :: CPython
- Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
Typing
- Typed
Reusable core utilities for various Python Packaging interoperability specifications.
This library provides utilities that implement the interoperability specifications which have clearly one correct behaviour (eg: PEP 440) or benefit greatly from having a single shared implementation (eg: PEP 425).
The packaging project includes the following: version handling, specifiers, markers, requirements, tags, utilities.
Documentation
The documentation provides information and the API for the following:
Version Handling
Specifiers
Markers
Requirements
Tags
Utilities
Installation
Use pip to install these utilities:
pip install packaging
The packaging library uses calendar-based versioning (YY.N).
Discussion
If you run into bugs, you can file them in our issue tracker.
You can also join #pypa on Freenode to ask questions or get involved.
Code of Conduct
Everyone interacting in the packaging project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the PSF Code of Conduct.
Contributing
The CONTRIBUTING.rst file outlines how to contribute to this project as well as how to report a potential security issue. The documentation for this project also covers information about project development and security.
Project History
Please review the CHANGELOG.rst file or the Changelog documentation for recent changes and project history.