Hello, I'm beginner in kedro and trying to get myself familiar with it. I've seen that in startup projects there's

setup.py

present in

src/

. I can't find info on documentation pages what is it used for? Is the kedro pipeline built as a python package for some portability features? I'd like to know what's going on if someone can shed some light here 🙂

This is used to package projects (in truth this is now done via the new

pyproject.toml

standard) and make it pip instal-able by someone else

so I'd like to package the project only if I wanted to distribute it more easily than cloning the project's repo?

it’s best to think about deploying the finished article that needs to run in production

hmm for that I usually use docker

also an option!

okay I got the grasp of it, thanks for clarification 🙂

part of what we’re trying to do is get people up and running quickly so they can do some Data Science and not spend their time working out tooling