pycreator 0.2

Automatically create a command application

pycreator

Create boilerplate application thru the command-line!

TLDR;

pip install pycreator       # to install pycreator
pycreator goes brrr         # where brr is the name

Usage

create

This command allow to create a Python boilerplate application with the structure as showed below. Available commands for create:

-n, --name      -- application name (required)
-l, --location  -- location to create a new package. If none it will create at working directory

Structure of example application named brrr (pycreator create -n brrr)

brrr
│   LICENSE.md
│   README.md
│   VERSION
│
└───src
    └───brrr
        │   setup.py
        │   __init__.py
        │
        ├───actions
        │   │   action.py
        │   │   action_dispatcher.py
        │   │   version.py
        │   │   __init__.py
        │   │
        │   └───example_action
        │           example_action.py
        │           __init__.py
        │
        ├───core
        │       __init__.py
        │
        ├───framework
        │       messages.py
        │       __init__.py
        │
        └───main
                main.py
                __init__.py

add

Note: This is experimental function and it does not work always correct

The add function allow to add a new action into actions directory. To use it please be at brrr directory under src (please see an example above) and the type:

pycreator add -n action_name

New folder action_name and action_name.py will be created.

Note: Please import a new action in actions_dispatcher.py file manually.

New action should be added here, into ACTION_HANDLERS

class ActionDispatcher:
    ACTION_HANDLERS = [AddAction,
                       CreateAction,
                       GoesAction,
                       ShowVersion]

Build

Boilerplate app comes with preconfigured setup.py file which allow to create a .whl package. To build a package, go to src dir a type in the terminal:

pip install setuptools wheel
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

After operation in the newly created dir dist/ you should find a *.tar.gz & *.whl packages.