If you're looking for user documentation, go here.
We use Visual Studio Code (VS Code) as code editor.
The VS Code Profile for this project is vscode/nplinker.code-profile,
which contains the settings, extensions and snippets for the project. To use the profile, you must
first import it by clicking the following menus: Code
-> Settings
-> Profiles
-> Import Profile...
.
Then select the file vscode/nplinker.code-profile to import the profile.
VS Code will take a while to install the extensions and apply the settings. Want more info? See
vscode profiles guide.
If you want to add more settings, you can update the workspace settings, see the guide for more info.
We use Python 3.10 for development environment.
# Create a virtual environment, e.g. with
python3 -m venv venv
# activate virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate
# make sure to have a recent version of pip and setuptools
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
# install development dependencies
pip install --no-cache-dir --editable ".[dev]"
# install non-pypi dependencies
install-nplinker-deps
Afterwards check that the install directory is present in the PATH
environment variable.
You can also use conda to manage python environments.
Run unit tests with
pytest
# or
pytest -n auto tests/unit
Parallel testing is supported with pytest-xdist
plugin. To run tests in parallel, use the -n
option, e.g. -n auto
to run tests in parallel with the number of CPUs available.
Run integration tests with
pytest -n 0 tests/integration
-n 0
means no parallel testing.
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:
coverage run
This runs tests and stores the result in a .coverage
file.
To see the results on the command line, run
coverage report
coverage
can also generate output in HTML and other formats; see coverage help
for more information.
We use ruff for linting, sorting imports and formatting code. The configurations of ruff
are set in pyproject.toml file.
Running the linters and formatters requires an activated virtual environment with the development tools installed.
# Lint all files in the current directory.
ruff check .
# Lint all files in the current directory, and fix any fixable errors.
ruff check . --fix
# Format all files in the current directory
ruff format .
# Format a single python file
ruff format filename.py
We use inline type annotation for static typing rather than stub files (i.e. .pyi
files).
Since Python 3.10 is used as dev environment and NPLinker must support Python version ≥3.9, you may see various typing issues at runtime. Here is a guide to solve the potential runtime issues.
By default, we use from __future__ import annotations
at module level to stop evaluating annotations at function definition time (see PEP 563), which would solve most of compatibility issues between different Python versions. Make sure you're aware of the caveats.
We use Mypy as static type checker:
# install mypy
pip install mypy
# run mypy
mypy path-to-source-code
Mypy configurations are set in pyproject.toml file.
For more info about static typing and mypy, see:
We use MkDocs and its theme Material for MkDocs to generate documentations. The configurations of MkDocs are set in mkdocs.yml file.
To watch the changes of current doc in real time, run:
mkdocs serve
# or to watch src and docs directories
mkdocs serve -w docs -w src
Then open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/.
The docs are published on github pages. We use mike
to deploy the docs to the gh-pages
branch and to manage the versions of docs.
For example, to deploy the version 2.0 of the docs to the gh-pages
branch and make it the latest
version, run:
mike deploy -p -u 2.0 latest
If you are not happy with the changes you can run mike delete [version]
.
All these mike operations will be recorded as git commits of branch gh-pages
.
mike serve
is used to check all versions committed to branch gh-pages
, which is for checking
the production website. If you have changes but not commit them yet, you should use mkdocs serve
instead of mike serve
to check them.
Updating the version of the NPLinker package is done with make command update-version
, e.g.
make update-version CURRENT_VERSION=0.0.1 NEW_VERSION=0.0.2
This section describes how to make a release in 3 parts:
- preparation
- making a release on PyPI
- making a release on GitHub
- Update the <CHANGELOG.md> (don't forget to update links at bottom of page)
- Verify that the information in
CITATION.cff
is correct, and that.zenodo.json
contains equivalent data - Make sure the version has been updated.
- Run the unit tests with
pytest -v
In a new terminal, without an activated virtual environment or an env directory:
# prepare a new directory
cd $(mktemp -d nplinker.XXXXXX)
# fresh git clone ensures the release has the state of origin/main branch
git clone https://github.com/NPLinker/nplinker .
# prepare a clean virtual environment and activate it
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
# make sure to have a recent version of pip and setuptools
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
# install runtime dependencies and publishing dependencies
python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir .
python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir .[publishing]
# clean up any previously generated artefacts
rm -rf nplinker.egg-info
rm -rf dist
# create the source distribution and the wheel
python3 -m build
# upload to test pypi instance (requires credentials)
twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
Visit https://test.pypi.org/project/nplinker 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:
cd $(mktemp -d nplinker-test.XXXXXX)
# prepare a clean virtual environment and activate it
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
# make sure to have a recent version of pip and setuptools
pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
# install from test pypi instance:
python3 -m pip -v install --no-cache-dir \
--index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ \
--extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple nplinker
Check that the package works as it should when installed from pypitest.
Then upload to pypi.org with:
# Back to the first terminal,
# FINAL STEP: upload to PyPI (requires credentials)
twine upload dist/*
Don't forget to also make a release on GitHub. If your repository uses the GitHub-Zenodo integration this will also trigger Zenodo into making a snapshot of your repository and sticking a DOI on it.