https://github.com/jameslamb/pydistcheck
Linter that finds portability issues in Python package distributions (wheels, sdists, conda packages).
https://github.com/jameslamb/pydistcheck
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Linter that finds portability issues in Python package distributions (wheels, sdists, conda packages).
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jameslamb/pydistcheck
- Owner: jameslamb
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2022-06-21T03:06:45.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-01T01:57:22.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-02T23:12:27.550Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: linter, packaging, portability, python, static-analysis
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://pydistcheck.readthedocs.io/
- Size: 1.44 MB
- Stars: 35
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 11
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
- Security: .github/SECURITY.md
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README
# pydistcheck
[](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pydistcheck)
[](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pydistcheck)
[](https://pypi.org/project/pydistcheck)
[](https://pypi.org/project/pydistcheck)
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## What is `pydistcheck`?
`pydistcheck` is a command line interface (CLI) that you run on Python packages, which can:
* detect common portability issues
* print useful summaries of the package's contents
It's inspired by R's `R CMD check`.
Supported formats:
* Python sdists
* Python wheels
* `conda` packages (both `.conda` and `.tar.bz2`)
* any `.tar.bz2`, `.tar.gz`, or `.zip` archive
See ["Check Reference"](https://pydistcheck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/check-reference.html) for a complete list of the types of issues `pydistcheck` can catch.
See ["How to Test a Python Distribution"](https://pydistcheck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how-to-test-a-python-distribution.html) to learn how `pydistcheck` and similar tools like [`auditwheel`](https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel), [`check-wheel-contents`](https://github.com/jwodder/check-wheel-contents), and [`twine check`](https://twine.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#twine-check) fit into Python development workflows.
For more background on the value of such a tool, see the SciPy 2022 talk "Does that CSV Belong on PyPI? Probably Not" ([video link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a7g5l_g_U8)).
## Installation
Install with `pip`.
```shell
pip install pydistcheck
```
Or `conda`.
```shell
conda install -c conda-forge pydistcheck
```
For more details, see "Installation" ([link](./docs/installation.rst)).
## Quickstart
Try it out on a package you like...
```shell
pip download \
--no-deps \
-d ./downloads \
pyarrow
pydistcheck --inspect ./downloads/*.whl
```
... to see what it contains.
```text
----- package inspection summary -----
file size
* compressed size: 25.9M
* uncompressed size: 94.0M
* compression space saving: 72.4%
contents
* directories: 0
* files: 809 (30 compiled)
size by extension
* .dylib - 73.2M (77.9%)
* .so - 10.8M (11.4%)
* .h - 4.5M (4.8%)
* .py - 2.4M (2.5%)
* .pyx - 0.8M (0.8%)
* .pxi - 0.7M (0.8%)
* .cc - 0.4M (0.5%)
* .cmake - 0.4M (0.4%)
* .pxd - 0.3M (0.3%)
* .gz - 0.2M (0.2%)
* .hpp - 0.1M (0.1%)
* .txt - 0.1M (0.1%)
* no-extension - 77.4K (0.1%)
* .orc - 48.4K (0.1%)
* .parquet - 14.0K (0.0%)
* .sh - 7.8K (0.0%)
* .md - 3.6K (0.0%)
* .yml - 1.5K (0.0%)
* .ubuntu - 1.3K (0.0%)
* .fedora - 1.0K (0.0%)
* .diff - 1.0K (0.0%)
* .feather - 0.6K (0.0%)
largest files
* (49.1M) pyarrow/libarrow.1700.dylib
* (10.7M) pyarrow/libarrow_flight.1700.dylib
* (3.8M) pyarrow/lib.cpython-311-darwin.so
* (3.8M) pyarrow/libparquet.1700.dylib
* (2.9M) pyarrow/libarrow_substrait.1700.dylib
==================== done running pydistcheck ===============
```
Or on the test data in this repo ...
```shell
pydistcheck tests/data/problematic-package-*
```
... to see the types of issues it checks for.
```text
------------ check results -----------
1. [files-only-differ-by-case] Found files which differ only by case. Files: problematic-package-0.1.0/problematic_package/Question.py,problematic-package-0.1.0/problematic_package/question.PY,problematic-package-0.1.0/problematic_package/question.py
2. [mixed-file-extensions] Found a mix of file extensions for the same file type: .NDJSON (1), .jsonl (1), .ndjson (1)
3. [mixed-file-extensions] Found a mix of file extensions for the same file type: .yaml (2), .yml (1)
4. [path-contains-non-ascii-characters] Found file path containing non-ASCII characters: 'problematic-package-0.1.0/problematic_package/?veryone-loves-python.py'
5. [path-contains-spaces] Found path with spaces: 'problematic-package-0.1.0/beep boop.ini'
6. [path-contains-spaces] Found path with spaces: 'problematic-package-0.1.0/problematic_package/bad code/'
7. [path-contains-spaces] Found path with spaces: 'problematic-package-0.1.0/problematic_package/bad code/__init__.py'
8. [path-contains-spaces] Found path with spaces: 'problematic-package-0.1.0/problematic_package/bad code/ship-it.py'
9. [unexpected-files] Found unexpected directory 'problematic-package-0.1.0/.git/'.
10. [unexpected-files] Found unexpected file 'problematic-package-0.1.0/.gitignore'.
11. [unexpected-files] Found unexpected file 'problematic-package-0.1.0/.hadolint.yaml'.
12. [unexpected-files] Found unexpected file 'problematic-package-0.1.0/problematic_package/.gitignore'.
errors found while checking: 12
```
And on a built distribution containing compiled objects ...
```shell
pydistcheck tests/data/debug-baseballmetrics*.whl
```
... `pydistcheck` can detect the inclusion of debug symbols (which increase distribution size).
```text
checking 'tests/data/debug-baseballmetrics-0.1.0-py3-none-macosx_10_15_x86_64.macosx_11_6_x86_64.macosx_12_5_x86_64.whl'
------------ check results -----------
1. [compiled-objects-have-debug-symbols] Found compiled object containing debug symbols. For details, extract the distribution contents and run 'dsymutil -s "lib/lib_baseballmetrics.dylib"'.
errors found while checking: 1
checking 'tests/data/debug-baseballmetrics-py3-none-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.whl'
------------ check results -----------
1. [compiled-objects-have-debug-symbols] Found compiled object containing debug symbols. For details, extract the distribution contents and run 'objdump --all-headers "lib/lib_baseballmetrics.so"'.
errors found while checking: 1
```
See https://pydistcheck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ to learn more.
## References
* Python packaging guides: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/#