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+============================================
+02: Python Packages for Pyramid Applications
+============================================
+
+Most modern Python development is done using Python packages, an approach
+Pyramid puts to good use. In this step we redo "Hello World" as a minimal
+Python package inside a minimal Python project.
+
+
+Background
+==========
+
+Python developers can organize a collection of modules and files into a
+namespaced unit called a :ref:`package <python:tut-packages>`. If a directory
+is on ``sys.path`` and has a special file named ``__init__.py``, it is treated
+as a Python package.
+
+Packages can be bundled up, made available for installation, and installed
+through a toolchain oriented around a ``setup.py`` file. For this tutorial,
+this is all you need to know:
+
+- We will have a directory for each tutorial step as a *project*.
+
+- This project will contain a ``setup.py`` which injects the features of the
+  project machinery into the directory.
+
+- In this project we will make a ``tutorial`` subdirectory into a Python
+  *package* using an ``__init__.py`` Python module file.
+
+- We will run ``pip install -e .`` to install our project in development mode.
+
+In summary:
+
+- You'll do your development in a Python *package*.
+
+- That package will be part of a *project*.
+
+
+Objectives
+==========
+
+- Make a Python "package" directory with an ``__init__.py``.
+
+- Get a minimum Python "project" in place by making a ``setup.py``.
+
+- Install our ``tutorial`` project in development mode.
+
+
+Steps
+=====
+
+#. Make an area for this tutorial step:
+
+   .. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ cd ..; mkdir package; cd package
+
+#. In ``package/setup.py``, enter the following:
+
+   .. literalinclude:: package/setup.py
+
+#. Make the new project installed for development then make a directory for the
+   actual code:
+
+   .. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ $VENV/bin/pip install -e .
+    $ mkdir tutorial
+
+#. Enter the following into ``package/tutorial/__init__.py``:
+
+   .. literalinclude:: package/tutorial/__init__.py
+
+#. Enter the following into ``package/tutorial/app.py``:
+
+   .. literalinclude:: package/tutorial/app.py
+
+#. Run the WSGI application with:
+
+   .. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ $VENV/bin/python tutorial/app.py
+
+#. Open http://localhost:6543/ in your browser.
+
+
+Analysis
+========
+
+Python packages give us an organized unit of project development. Python
+projects, via ``setup.py``, give us special features when our package is
+installed (in this case, in local development mode, also called local editable
+mode as indicated by ``-e .``).
+
+In this step we have a Python package called ``tutorial``. We use the same name
+in each step of the tutorial, to avoid unnecessary retyping.
+
+Above this ``tutorial`` directory we have the files that handle the packaging
+of this project. At the moment, all we need is a bare-bones ``setup.py``.
+
+Everything else is the same about our application. We simply made a Python
+package with a ``setup.py`` and installed it in development mode.
+
+Note that the way we're running the app (``python tutorial/app.py``) is a bit
+of an odd duck.  We would never do this unless we were writing a tutorial that
+tries to capture how this stuff works one step at a time. It's generally a bad
+idea to run a Python module inside a package directly as a script.
+
+.. seealso:: :ref:`Python Packages <python:tut-packages>` and `Working in
+   "Development Mode"
+   <https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing/#working-in-development-mode>`_.