Publish task as a Python package

[sisp]

I'd love to use task as the task runner in a Python project without requiring developers to install task manually. In my opinion, it is much better to use task over the plethora of language-specific task runners because it tends to be more feature-rich than many alternatives (as far as I can tell) and can be used for projects independent of their programming languages across all major operating systems without requiring a runtime (like the Python interpreter) thanks to the compiled Go binaries. I'd hope that task would gain further adoption with additional language-native packages and development efforts would focus on this project rather than being scattered across the language-specific alternatives.

I believe a Python package could be created quite easily with some inspiration from the following projects:

• https://github.com/shellcheck-py/shellcheck-py
• https://github.com/editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker.python

Would you be open to accepting a contribution that adds support for publishing a Python package?

Related to #870.

[andreynering]

Hi @sisp,

I have zero experience with the Python world, so to even consider doing this I need some guidance from the community.

npm was easy because I'm more familiar with the JS world and the process was relative straightforward.

For anyone that would use this, please add your 👍 so we know how many would really use this.

[retr0h]

hi @andreynering @sisp I could help with this if interested. Would likely utilize poetry as the mechanism for publishing the package.

[sisp]

@retr0h I do like Poetry for Python projects, but I don't think it's useful or even beneficial in this case. The projects I referenced build packages that essentially download the binary for the respective platform during installation of the package. This can be done nicely in setup.py but I don't quite see how it would be done with Poetry, or how Poetry would be better than using setup.py and twine (the standard publishing utility for Python) for publishing the package.

[retr0h]

@sisp Mostly b/c setup.py has better alternatives now days. Poetry can handle publishing packages as well and uses the modern day pyproject.toml file to support such efforts.

[sisp]

@retr0h Old tools but widely adopted. There's nothing wrong with that. Anyway, how would you implement the code that downloads the binaries for the given platform and architecture during package installation with Poetry?

[Undertone0809]

I see a implement https://pypi.org/project/go-task-bin/#description

[pd93]

This is one of the most upvoted issues, but I can't tell if there is actually any reason to keep it open? I'm not a heavy Python user, so haven't verified if https://pypi.org/project/go-task-bin is a good resolution.

If we're happy with it, then it can be added to our docs as a community installation method and this can be closed.

[andreynering]

That project seems to be up-to-date with new releases, which is good.

If it works, I agree to add a section to the website (below npm) and close this issue.

[retr0h]

Gilt publishes python packages which contain go universal binaries.

We piggy back on goreleaser with a smidge of python: https://github.com/retr0h/gilt/blob/main/Taskfile.yml#L125