Python package development

Once you have created a Python file you can upload this on a web repository where others can use this module.

• Loading a python module from a remote repository can be done using httpimport module

• A python module is a python file including certain python class and/or functions to be used by some other python script/function.

• In order to use a github hosted python module you can use python’s httpimport module, which can be installed using following command.

pip install httpimport

• Once httpimport python module is installed it can fetch any valid URL link where python module is located.

• Following Python code shows you a demo of calling the circle module’s area() function as available in a public GitHub repository.

import httpimport
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deep-bits/PFA/main/Python-tutorials/"
with httpimport.remote_repo(url):
    import circle as c
    import Factorial_via_iteration as f
print("Area of a circle with radius =",4,"is",c.area(4))

## Area of a circle with radius = 4 is 50.26544

print("Factorial of",4, "is",f.factI(4))

## Factorial of 4 is 24

Summary : A repository link can be provided to httpimport's remote_repo() function with which you can import the python modules as hosted on web repositories such as GitHub. After the import of remote repository it can be accessed like a local python module.