Spotfire Service for Python programmers in your organization can develop their own packages or take advantage of some of the thousands of compatible packages developed by other Python programmers, and then share the analyses that use those functions with Spotfire users in your organization.

The largest and most commonly-used curated repository for Python packages is the Python Package Index (PyPI). Administrators should check with authors to make sure they know the location for needed packages.

Spotfire analysts can create data functions that use these packages, and then share them with either other Spotfire Analyst installations or users of Spotfire Business Author and Consumer connected to the Spotfire Server using a web browser.

• To share a collection of Python packages and data functions that use them with Spotfire Analyst installations connected to your Spotfire Server, create the Spotfire package (SPK) containing the Python packages, and use the --analyst flag. For more information, see the instructions in the guide Python Data Functions in TIBCO Spotfire®, provided with the Spotfire Analyst documentation. Packages deployed in this manner are distributed to other Spotfire Analyst installations in your organization when they connect to the Spotfire Server where the packages are deployed.
• To enable data functions that use the code in the Python packages with Spotfire Business Author and Consumer users through a web browser, see Distribute Python Packages. Packages deployed in this manner are on the Spotfire Server node manager where the Spotfire Service for Python is installed.

The following image shows the workflow for creating an SPK to share Python packages with other analysts, or to enable data functions for Spotfire Business Author and Consumer users.