Django Polls Package
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This project takes the Official Django Polls App a step further, turning it into a standalone Python package that can be installed into any Django project with pip. It follows Django's advanced tutorial on writing reusable apps, working through the packaging process end to end rather than just building the app itself.
That process meant pulling the polls app out of its original project, restructuring it as an independent package, and adding the files Python packaging expects: a README, a BSD 3-Clause LICENSE, a pyproject.toml describing the build, and a MANIFEST.in to include templates and static files in the distribution. From there the package builds into both source and wheel formats with Python's build tool, and installs cleanly into a virtual environment the same way any third-party Django app would.
The result is a self-contained, pip-installable polls app, ready to drop into a new Django project without copying files by hand.
Related Resources
- Django official advanced tutorial on writing reusable apps: the companion post walking through this package's build process
- Official Django Polls App: the original project this package is built from