How to make a private module pip installable?

Question

I have python package which need to be installed to run a Django project?

I go into the python virtual environment and clone the module from git in site-packages folder inside lib.

What i need is to make that module pip intallable and installation access should be given only to specific people i.e that module should not be public to everyone.

Answer 1

Build the python package as you normally would for a public build. For helpful step-by-step instructions on that front, check out the python docs

There are a number of ways to maintain both installability and privacy. When I looked into this for my own packages I started with the suggestions at this site. This site includes instructions on how to build your own equivalent of a PyPi server.

The solution I landed on though, I feel is quite simpler. I pushed the entire package to a private git repository hosted on github. You can then install using pip install git+[insert full url to your github repository here]. You can enforce privacy by restricting who has access to your git repository.