Ready this for publication to the Python Package Index

[nutjob4life]

Purpose

Makes this repository ready for publication to the Python Package Index so end-users can simply pip install it without checking out the code, without managing dependencies, etc. All they need is a working Python.

Proposed Changes

• Makes a new console script available: slim
• Removes requirements.txt and replaces it with pyproject.toml which has both the dependencies and the package metadata
• Updates the README instructions to demonstrate installation from PyPI as well as how to continue local development
• Adds support for --version and version tracking
• Adds a .gitignore
• Removes potential Dependency Confusion Vulnerabilities
• Comments-out tabulate dependency; it doesn't appear to be used
• Removes argparse dependency; it's part of the standard library

Issues

N/A.

Testing

bash-3.2$ python3 -m venv .venv
bash-3.2$ . .venv/bin/activate
(.venv) bash-3.2$ pip install --quiet --editable .

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.0 -> 24.2
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip
(.venv) bash-3.2$ which slim
/private/tmp/slim-cli/.venv/bin/slim
(.venv) bash-3.2$ slim --version
0.0.0

Notes

This doesn't actually publish SLIM CLI to PyPI. I'll leave it to the repository owners to do that so they can grab the name before someone else does (including me).

To do so (assuming your ~/.pypirc is set up):

bash-3.2$ python3 -m venv .venv
bash-3.2$ . .venv/bin/activate
(.venv) bash-3.2$ pip install --quiet build wheel twine

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.0 -> 24.2
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip
(.venv) bash-3.2$ python3 -m build .
…
(.venv) bash-3.2$ twine upload dist/*
…

[yunks128]

@nutjob4life Thank you for your contribution!
It's published:
https://pypi.org/project/slim-cli/

[nutjob4life]

@yunks128 awesome! And thanks for moving so quickly on this! 🎉

The next thing you might want to do is add more "owners" to PyPI so that not just you can publish it, but your other SLIM compatriots can also do it. You never want "SOLE OWNER" to appear on your list of projects—after all, if something terrible were to happen to you, no one else could ever update this package! 😱

For example, on my own "Projects" page, I see I need to fix that for at least one of my own projects:

[yunks128]

Thank you @nutjob4life ! I invite you and @riverma as collaborators! I appreciate your help!

[riverma]

@nutjob4life - just tested out your GREAT improvements to the organization, user experience, and setup process for slim-cli. Absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much for your most excellent contributions! The branch is even deliciously named cheeseshop!

I love how I can run the tool as simply now like:

slim list

Brilliant contribution and thank you!

[nutjob4life]

Aww, I appreciate that (and for noticing my branch name 😉) but seriously @yunks128 deserves the lion's share of the credit! Thank you KS! 🎉 🎸