The "Python Packaging User Guide" (PUG) aims to be the authoritative resource on how to package and install distributions in Python using current tools, but also on the efforts to improve python packaging. The guide is part of a larger effort to improve all of the packaging and installation docs, including pip, setuptools, virtualenv, wheel, distlib, and docs.python.org.

The guide is currently maintained by the "Python Packaging Authority" (PyPA). It was forked from the “Hitchhikers Guide to Packaging” in March 2013, which was maintained by Tarek Ziadé. Thankyou Tarek for all your efforts in python packaging.

The html version of the Guide is currently available online at http://packaging.python.org.

The Python Packaging User Guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 .