pyproject-maker 0.4.1

A command line app to create a Python project skeleton.

Python Project Generation Tool

This is a command line tool to help you create new Python projects. It will create a new directory for your project, initialise a git repository, create a virtual environment, and install some basic dependencies.

More functionality will be added very shortly and the code will be refactored and cleaned up.

• Installation
• Documentation
• Usage
  • Task Runner
  • Customise
  • Linting
  • Pre-commit
• License

Installation

It is probably better to install this package globally, rather than in a virtual environment, as it is intended to be used to create new projects.

Install the package globally using pip:

$ pip install pyproject-maker

If you cannot install globally due to permissions, you can install it to your user install directory:

$ pip install --user pyproject-maker

or use pipx

$ pipx install pyproject-maker

Documentation

Full documentation for this project with usage examples is available at https://py-maker.seapagan.net/

Usage

To create a new project, run the following command:

$ pymaker new <project-folder>

This will create a new directory with the name you provide, and run the steps needed to get you started quickly:

1. Copy the template files into the new directory
2. Initialise a git repository
3. Commit the boilerplate to Git

You will be asked a series of questions to customise the new project.

When it asks "Package Name?" you can choose two variants :

1. If you wish for a standard Python package that can optionally be uploaded to http://pypi.org, enter a package name here. Note that underscores ("_") must be used as opposed to dashes ("-") to comply with Python package naming rules.
2. Enter '-' to instruct the tool that you are not creating any package, just a standalone app, and then the main.py will just be placed in the project root.

You should now change into the new directory, install dependencies and activate the virtual environment:

$ cd <project-folder>
$ poetry install
$ poetry shell

Now, you can start developing :smile:

Task Runner

The task-runner Poe the Poet is installed as a development dependency which allows us to run simple tasks (similar to npm scripts).

These are run (from within the virtual environment) using the poe command and then the script name, for example:

$ poe pre

You can define your own, but there are 5 specific ones provided with the script.

• pre : Run pre-commit run --all-files

• pylint: Run Pylint on all Python files in the project.

• mypy = Run MyPy type-checker on all Python files in the project.

• flake8 = Run Flake8 linter on all Python files in the project.

• black = Run Black code formatter on all Python files in the project.

• try = Run Tryceratops linter on all Python files in the project.

• lint = Runs pylint, mypy, flake8 and black in sequence

These are defined in the pyproject.toml file in the [tool.poe.tasks] section. Take a look at this file if you want to add or remove tasks.

Customise

The pyproject.toml file is set up to use app as the main source directory, which is the default for this template, you can change this to whatever you require, just remember to update the pyproject.toml file to match.

You can also modify the template used to generate the new project. Check the documentation at https://py-maker.seapagan.net/ for more details.

Linting

The generated project includes flake8 (with several plugins) for linting and Black for formatting. Mypy is installed for type checking. isort,Pylint and tyrceratops are also installed as standard.

Pre-commit

The generated project uses pre-commit to run some checks on the code before it is committed. This is a great tool to help keep your code clean.

To install pre-commit, run the following command from inside your venv:

$ pre-commit install
pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Grant Ramsay

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