pytoolbelt-cli 0.5.0

A CLI tool to help teams share internal tooling written in python.

Sharing python tooling within your organization, the easy way.

What is Pytoolbelt?

Pytoolbelt is a CLI, intended to remove the barrier to developing, sharing, testing and documenting internal tooling written in python within your organization.

It treats a standard git repo as a toolbelt, which is basically a mono repo with all of your python tools and scripts that you want to share and document for use within your organization.

It also allows your team to define one or more python environments (venv) that can be re-used for multiple tools, and facilitates installing your tools as a zipapp, which can be run globally from your terminal.

Why Pytoolbelt?

Python is a wonderful language for writing scripts and small tools, but sharing them within your organization can be a pain. virtual environments, requirements.txt, setup.py, makefile, pyproject.toml packaging, versioning, documentation, testing, public / private artifact repositories (pypi) etc....

Pytoolbelt takes care of all of that for you. It leverages best practices and existing tools in the python ecosystem to make it easy to share your tools with your colleagues.

Getting Started

pytoolbelt can be installed via pip (venv creation recommended):

pip install pytoolbelt-cli

pytoolbelt is also intended to be installed globally if desired. If that is the case, It is recommended to be installed via pipx

pipx install pytoolbelt-cli

Pipx is a tool that can be considered a "homebrew" for tools written in python. More information on pipx can be found here

Initialize pytoolbelt

To initialize a new pytoolbelt project and add the required directories to your $PATH, run the following command:

pytoolbelt init --path

Video Tutorials

Head over to the pytoolbelt YouTube channel for video tutorials on how to use pytoolbelt: Pytoolbelt YouTube Channel

As pytoolbelt allows the installation of python tools from a toolbelt, it must also be added to your $PATH by running

pytoolbelt init --path

this will add the ~/.pytoolbelt/tools directory to your $PATH in your .bashrc or .zshrc file.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.