python-projector: A collection of simple scripts to manage Python projects

🛠️ Installation

# install with pip
pip install python-projector

# install with uv tool
uv tool install python-projector

🚀 Usage

 Usage: projector [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

╭─ Options ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --version             -v        Show version                                                                         │
│ --install-completion            Install completion for the current shell.                                            │
│ --show-completion               Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or customize the installation.     │
│ --help                -h        Show this message and exit.                                                          │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Commands ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ find-pyproject-toml      Find the pyproject.toml file in the current directory or any parent directory.              │
│ get-min-python-version   Get the minimum python version from the pyproject.toml file.                                │
│ get-src-dir              Print the `src/` directory based on the pyproject.toml file.                                │
│ gen-init-py              Generate __init__.py files for all subdirectories of src/.                                  │
│ pip-compile              Generate requirements.txt and requirements-dev.txt files.                                   │
│ run-doctest              Run doctest for all modules in `src/` directory.                                            │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Find nearest pyproject.toml file with projector find-pyproject-toml

It will find the nearest pyproject.toml file in the current directory or its parent directories.

Get src/ directory with projector get-src-dir

It will read the pyproject.toml's tool.setuptools.packages.find.where setting. If the configuration is not found, it will assume src/ as the default value.

[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
where = ["src"]

Apply uv pip compile with projector pip-compile

Background:

• uv pip compile is a command that generates a requirements.txt file from a requirements.in file.
• requirements.in file should contain the direct dependencies of the project, with dynamic versions.
• requirements.txt file contains all dependencies with pinned versions.
• This is a thin wrapper around the command to generate requirements.txt files per architecture.
• There exists --universal flag to generate a universal requirements.txt file, but we don't use it. Instead, we just separate the files per architecture.
  • This is because it makes the requirements overly complicated to read and parse.
• There exists a better format called uv.lock but this is also more complicated to read and parse.
• For now, we stick to the requirements.txt format for the sake of simplicity.

Usage:

First, configure in the pyproject.toml file:

[tool.projector.pip-compile]
requirements-in-dir = "deps"
requirements-out-dir = "deps/lock"
python-platforms = ["x86_64-manylinux_2_28", "aarch64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-apple-darwin"]

Then, run the command:

projector pip-compile

It will make deps/lock/{platform}/requirements*.txt files based on the deps/requirements*.in files.

Get minimum Python version with projector get-min-python-version

Given the pyproject.toml file:

[tool.project]
requires-python = ">=3.10,<4"

It will output the minimum Python version:

$ projector get-min-python-version
3.10

This is useful in CI where you want to run unit test etc. with the minimum Python version.
For example, in GitHub Actions:

jobs:
  job-name:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Install uv
        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
      - name: Get minimum Python version
        run: |
          uv tool install python-projector
          echo "min_python_version=$(projector get-min-python-version)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
        id: parse-python-version
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: ${{ steps.parse-python-version.outputs.min_python_version }}
      # ...

Generate __init__.py files with projector gen-init-py

Generate __init__.py files recursively in the src/ directory found like projector get-src-dir.

This is useful for mkdocs because it requires __init__.py in all modules.

Run doctest with projector run-doctest

Run doctest with all modules in the src/ directory found like projector get-src-dir.