pymetacode 0.7.0

A Python package helping to write and maintain Python packages.

pymetacode

A Python package helping to write and maintain Python packages.

Code that writes code – yes, that’s correct. Automating the boring stuff, one could say, or helping to focus on the creative part of programming. In any case, the idea for this package stems from experience with a couple of Python projects, and as such it is pretty opinionated, focussing on personal needs regarding structure and layout. Nevertheless, it tries to be as user-friendly as possible, coming with an intuitive command-line interface (CLI).

What is the difference to CookieCutter and alike? It does not only create a project structure for you once, but it helps you to maintain your projects, i.e., adding modules, classes, functions together with documentation stubs and tests – following good practices of software development.

Want to get an idea? Here you go. Creating a new package would be a two-step process:

1. Write a configuration file for your new package (and afterwards fill it with sensible content)

pymeta write config to mypackage_config.yaml

2. Create the basic Python package structure for your package.

pymeta create package from mypackage_config.yaml

Once you have your package structure, you can add modules, classes, and functions to your package from within the package’s root directory at any time:

pymeta add module mymodule
pymeta add class MyClass to mymodule
pymeta add function my_function to mymodule

If you ever want to add a graphical user interface (GUI) to your project, this is (now) possible as well:

pymeta add gui
pymeta add window mysubwindow

And now - happy coding!

Features

A list of features:

• Create initial package structure (directory layout, files)

• Add module, class, and function scaffolds to an existing project, including tests and API documentation

• Add initial (Qt) GUI subpackage structure (directory layout, files)

• Add (Qt) GUI window scaffolds to existing project, including tests and API documentation

• Intuitive command-line interface (CLI)

• Initialise git repository; automatically incrementing version number with each commit

And to make it even more convenient for users and future-proof:

• Open source project written in Python (>= 3.7)

• Developed fully test-driven

• Extensive user and API documentation

Installation

To install the pymetacode package on your computer (sensibly within a Python virtual environment), open a terminal (activate your virtual environment), and type in the following:

pip install pymetacode

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License.