How to specify multiple author(s) / email(s) in setup.py

Question

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

Answer 1

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='foobar@baz.com, spameggs@joe.org',

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.