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Build and Publish#

If you are developing a library, after adding dependencies to your project, and finishing the coding, it's time to build and publish your package. It is as simple as one command:

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pdm publish

This will automatically build a wheel and a source distribution(sdist), and upload them to the PyPI index.

To specify another repository other than PyPI, use the --repository option, the parameter can be either the upload URL or the name of the repository stored in the config file.

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pdm publish --repository testpypi
pdm publish --repository https://test.pypi.org/legacy/

Publish with trusted publishers#

You can configure trusted publishers for PyPI so that you don't need to expose the PyPI tokens in the release workflow. To do this, follow the guide to add a publisher and write the GitHub Actions workflow as below:

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jobs:
  pypi-publish:
    name: upload release to PyPI
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      # IMPORTANT: this permission is mandatory for trusted publishing
      id-token: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - uses: pdm-project/setup-pdm@v3

      - name: Publish package distributions to PyPI
        run: pdm publish

Build and publish separately#

You can also build the package and upload it in two steps, to allow you to inspect the built artifacts before uploading.

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pdm build

There are many options to control the build process, depending on the backend used. Refer to the build configuration section for more details.

The artifacts will be created at dist/ and able to upload to PyPI.

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pdm publish --no-build