How to specify multiple author(s) / email(s) in setup.py
We wrote a small wrapper to a twitter app and published this information to http://pypi.python.org. But setup.py just contained a single field for specifying email / name of the author. How do I specify multiple contributors / email list, to the following fields since we would like this package to be listed under our names, much similar to how it shows up in http://rubygems.org.
author='foo',
author_email='[email protected]',
Answer
As far as I know, setuptools doesn't support using a list of strings in order to specify multiple authors. Your best bet is to list the authors in a single string:
author='Foo Bar, Spam Eggs',
author_email='[email protected], [email protected]',
I'm not sure if PyPI validates the author_email field, so you may run into trouble with that one. In any case, I would recommend you limit these to a single author and mention all contributors in the documentation or description.
[Edit] Some sources:
This has been registered as a bug, actually, but it seems like support for multiple authors was not implemented. Here is an alternative solution. Here is an idea for how to provide a contact email for a project with multiple authors.