The "Dynamic" Properties in PyProject
Fri 30 December 2022 by Moshe ZadkaWhen writing a
pyproject.toml
file,
the
project
section is optional.
However,
if it does exist,
two of its properties are
required:
nameversion
If these two properties are not there, the section will be ignored.
This is a lie. But it is not a big lie: it is almost true.
In general, if either of these two properties are not there, the section will be ignored. However, there is a way to indicate that either, or both, of these properties will be filled in by the build system later on.
This is done with
dynamic.
For example
[project]
name = "my-package"
dynamic = ["version"]
This is the most common setting.
However,
it is possible to set
dynamic
to
["name", "version"]
and avoid both parameters.
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