You can use setuptools to achieve that. In two steps, you just need to:
Create the setup.py script
This file calls the setuptools API that takes care of building your package. A very simple setup.py
would look like this:
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
setup(
name='mypackage',
version='0.1.0',
description='A short description',
long_description='I would just open("README.md").read() here',
author='Author of the Project',
author_email='author@company.com',
url='https://github.com/user/proj',
packages=find_packages(exclude=['*tests*']),
)
Generate the .egg file
That's definitely the easier part. You just have to call
$ python setup.py bdist_egg
Just look at the dist
directory created and you'll find the .egg
file.
I'd suggest you to take a look in a very good tutorial about setuptools: http://pythonhosted.org/an_example_pypi_project/setuptools.html