A little tool to make releasing new versions of open source Python projects easier.

In one simple command, ReleaseRabbit bumps version number in your project, pushes a github release, packs and uploads Python package to PyPI.

$ cd myproject

$ releaserabbit 1.2.3
# OR
$ releaserabbit patch
# OR
$ releaserabbit minor
# OR
$ releaserabbit major

1. pip install releaserabbit.
2. Setup your pypi credentials in ~/.pypirc.
3. setup.py must pull version name from a separate version file (see snippet below). VERSION_FILE must be a constant in setup.py
   • Alternative: VERSION as a string constant in setup.py if you can't (or don't want to) expose __version__ in your actual production python code.
4. Make sure you can push commits and tags to master.

import io, re
VERSION_FILE = "cleancat/__init__.py"
with io.open(VERSION_FILE, "rt", encoding="utf8") as f:
    version = re.search(r'__version__ = ([\'"])(.*?)\1', f.read()).group(2)