How is the process of assembling files in a Python project carried out?

In Python, the file build process is usually associated with preparing a project for distribution or execution. Unlike compiled languages, Python is an interpreted language, so "building" often means packaging code and dependencies.

Main steps of building in Python:

1. Preparing source files — organizing code into modules and packages.
2. Creating setup.py or pyproject.toml — describing project metadata and dependencies.
3. Packaging — using tools like setuptools to create distributions (wheel, sdist).
4. Compiling to bytecode (optional) — Python automatically compiles .py files to .pyc upon import, but you can pre-compile using python -m compileall.

Example of creating a package with setuptools:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name='my_package',
    version='0.1',
    packages=find_packages(),
    install_requires=[
        'requests',
    ],
)

After that, you can build the package with the command:

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

And obtain ready-to-install or publish files.