Les Menuires, France. Photo by Yann Allegre. I am pleased to introduce pkglite for Python, now available on PyPI. pkglite for Python provides a minimalist framework for packing source packages written in any programming language into a text file and restoring them to their original directory structure. You can install it with: pip install pkglite For installation as a global command-line tool, use pipx: pipx install pkglite Context Four years ago, we released the R package pkglite, designed for bidirectional conversion of R …