Create GitHub action to publish the package to PyPI

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+name: Release - Publish to PyPI
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.x"
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install build twine
+      - name: Build package
+        run: |
+          python -m build
+          twine check dist/*
+      - name: Publish package
+        run: twine upload dist/*
+        env:
+          TWINE_USERNAME: __token__
+          TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: tests
+name: Tests
 
 on: [push, pull_request]
 

setup.py

@@ -10,11 +10,10 @@
 
 long_description = ""
 try:
-    from pypandoc import convert
-
-    long_description = convert("README.md", "rst")
-except ImportError:
-    print("warning: pypandoc module not found, could not convert Markdown to RST")
+    with open("README.md") as f:
+        long_description = f.read()
+except FileNotFoundError:
+    print("warning: README.md not found, could not set long_description")
 
 
 def get_version(package):
@@ -57,10 +56,6 @@ def get_package_data(package):
 
 
 if sys.argv[-1] == "publish":
-    try:
-        import pypandoc
-    except ImportError:
-        print("pypandoc not installed.\nUse `pip install pypandoc`.\nExiting.")
     if os.system("pip freeze | grep twine"):
         print("twine not installed.\nUse `pip install twine`.\nExiting.")
         sys.exit()
@@ -81,6 +76,7 @@ def get_package_data(package):
     license="MIT",
     description="A simple django admin extension that shows when your periodic are going to run next",
     long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     author="Vinta Software",
     author_email="[email protected]",
     packages=get_packages("celerybeat_status"),