Hatch Build Scripts

A plugin for Hatch that allows you to run arbitrary build scripts and include their artifacts in your package distributions.

Installation

To set up hatch-build-scripts for your project you'll need to configure it in your project's pyproject.toml file as a build-system requirement:

[build-system]
requires = ["hatchling", "hatch-build-scripts"]
build-backend = "hatchling.build"

Usage

Now you'll need to configure the build scripts you want to run. This is done by adding an array of scripts to the tool.hatch.build.hooks.build-scripts.scripts key in your pyproject.toml file. Each script is configured with the following keys:

Key	Default	Description
commands	required	An array of commands to run. Each command is run in a separate shell.
artifacts	required	An array of artifact patterns (same as .gitignore) to include in your package distributions.
out_dir	"."	The directory to copy artifacts into.
work_dir	"."	The directory to run the commands in. All artifact patterns are relative to this directory.
clean_artifacts	true	Whether to clean files from the out_dir that match the artifact patterns before running the commands.
clean_out_dir	false	Whether to clean the out_dir before running the commands.

In practice this looks like:

[[tool.hatch.build.hooks.build-scripts.scripts]]
out_dir = "out"
commands = [
    "echo 'Hello, world!' > hello.txt",
    "echo 'Goodbye, world!' > goodbye.txt",
]
artifacts = [
    "hello.txt",
    "goodbye.txt",
]

[[tool.hatch.build.hooks.build-scripts.scripts]]
# you can add more scripts here...

You can configure script defaults for scripts by adding a [tool.hatch.build.hooks.build-scripts] table to your pyproject.toml file. The following keys are supported:

Key	Default	Description
out_dir	"."	The directory to copy artifacts into.
work_dir	"."	The directory to run the commands in. All artifact patterns are relative to this directory.
clean_artifacts	true	Whether to clean files from the out_dir that match the artifact patterns before running the commands.
clean_out_dir	false	Whether to clean the out_dir before running the commands.