Python Project Management and Packaging: PEP 751 update and some of the remaining issues of packaging

My first two articles ( part 1 and part 2 ) on Python project management and packaging gathered a lot of interest and I thought they were comprehensive enough for me not to come back and update them for a moment. But, about a month ago, PEP 751 – A file format to record Python dependencies for installation reproducibility , was accepted, 31 March 2025. At the time of publishing my first two…