ipptemplate 0.1.4

A template package from iPP eng. GmbH

Python Project Template

A Python Template to start quickly a new project. Generate doxygen for html and latex (PDF) with single
command in the project directory with the CLI. As well an program (.exe) for Windows can be generated with
a single instruction.

Note: Section Links not working with Pycharm markdown preview.

Getting started

Make sure you have installed python on your machine. If working with vscode, see at the tasks first (ctrl+shit+P -> task). There are some automation scripts in .vscode/scripts to execute several commands. This project and the scripts are optimized for using in a virtual environment (venv). Just run task Run (main.py) and the rest will be done automatically for you (consider notification or desired actions in terminal output).

Use the appropriate task to execute commands in virtual environment, such as pip list or pip install <PACKAGE_NAME>

Create virtual environment

It is recommended to use this project in a virtual environment.

1. Make sure you have installed virtualenv package globaly: pip install virtualenv
2. If you're working with vsCode, run main.py from tasks, will handle all automatically. Otherwise continue with following steps.
3. Create new folder (e.g. mkdir venv)
4. Navigate to this folder and just type python -m venv .
5. Then start the environment: Navigate to venv/Scripts/ and execute activate.bat

Project setup (This section is just for template documentation, delete on release)

1. Setup the PROJECT_NAME in docs/doxyfile

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Project Folder Description

Folder-Name	Usage/Content
bin	the executable generated with py2exe
docs	doxygen documentation
src	code sources, implementations & scripts

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Deploy Project

If the application want to execute from everywhere, you have to generate an executable (.exe) with py2exe.

py2exe

Use py2exe to generate the executable file.
First install py2exe, then run python generate_bin.py from root folder.
This script contains following three steps:

1. navigate to project's directory with CLI
2. run python setup.py py2exe -d ./bin

Note: Using py2exe every "folder" (here programs) must be a package. Otherwise py2exe don't include these modules for executable file.

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Generate documentation

Run doxygen in docs-folder because relative paths in doxygen-config-file are relative to the directory from which doxygen is run.
Navigate to ./docs and run just doxygen doxyfile

Edit ./docs/doxyfile and change PROJECT_NAME to the desired name.

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