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Guuk
Guuk

Reputation: 609

Right way to publish authors on PyPi from setuptools

I currently use setuptools to build my Python's package and I have declared the two authors that way in my pyproject.toml file:

authors = [
     {name = "X Y", email = "[email protected]"},
     {name = "Z H", email = "[email protected]"},
]

Everything works and I can publish it on PyPI but only the first author is published. How can I display both authors.

I have tried to use the following syntax

authors = ["X Y <[email protected]>, Z H <[email protected]>"]

But I have the following error

ValueError: invalid pyproject.toml config: `project.authors[{data__authors_x}]`.
configuration error: `project.authors[{data__authors_x}]` must be object

Notice that I specify:

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools","numpy","scipy","wheel"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3109

Answers (1)

sinoroc
sinoroc

Reputation: 22398

Your original notation is the correct one:

authors = [
     {name = "X Y", email = "[email protected]"},
     {name = "Z H", email = "[email protected]"},
]

but there are some issues that are out of your control.

On one hand it is not entirely clear how this should translate into the Core Metadata notation, which is the notation used inside the distribution artifacts (wheel), and which is then extracted and displayed by PyPI.

On the other hand, the build back-ends (setuptools included) are not explicit about how they transform from pyproject.toml notation to Core Metadata notation, and they tend to silently pick the first item of the list and ignore the following ones.

References:

Upvotes: 6

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