Simple Python project templating system based on Cookiecutter.

The pack will create the basic framework for a command line utility that can easily be modified for other purposes. The following will be setup and configured for you:

• Project structure
• Generic Python .gitignore file
• setup.py project file
• MIT License
• README.md with badges, like this README
• Sample headers.py file for web scraping
• Testing with Pytest, with initial test
• Virtual environment support
  • requirements.txt (venv)
  • requirements-dev.txt
  • environment.yml (conda)

The first thing that you must do is have Cookiecutter installed.

pip install --user cookiecutter

cookiecutter https://github.com/clamytoe/toepack

Answer the prompts or accept the defaults.

You could also clone this repo and install it from that copy:

git clone https://github.com/clamytoe/toepack.git
cookiecutter toepack

If you accept the defaults to the initial questions, this is what the directory structure of your new project will look like:

.
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── environment.yml
├── requirements-dev.txt
├── requirements.txt
├── setup.py
├── tests
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── test_toepack_clone.py
└── toepack_clone
    ├── __init__.py
    └── app.py

2 directories, 10 files

The toepack_clone is the default name of the project and it will change to whatever you enter during that prompt.

Now that your project's structure has been created, you can now create a virtual environment to work from. The README.md file that's created, will tell you how to create your it with normal python or with Anaconda.

Distributed under the terms of the MIT license, "toepack" is free and open source software.

If you encounter any problems, please file an issue along with a detailed description.

• v0.4.3 Added support for dotenv.
• v0.4.2 Updated for the year 2023 and python 3.10.12.
• v0.4.1 Updated for the year 2022.
• v0.4.0 Removed logging fromt the project, I never really use it on my small scripts and always end up removed it.
• v0.3.1 Added flake8 to the requirements-dev.txt and environment.yml files.
• v0.3.0 Removed poetry support since I don't really use it and updated the cookiecutter.json file
• v0.2.8 Replaced instances of os.path with pathlib.Path and created a logs directory.
• v0.2.7 Added pyproject.toml for poetry support.
• v0.2.6 Removed unused linters, added mypy and version badge.
• v0.2.5 Removed hard set version numbers for the environment/requirement packages.
• v0.2.4 Added pytest-coverage to the developer dependencies and replaced flake8 with pycodestyle.
• v0.2.3 Fixed a bug with the logging setup. It would only read in config if project started from project directory.
• v0.2.2 Disabled logging during tests and prevented log level INFO from displaying in the console.
• v0.2.1 Added more detail to the README.md file.
• v0.2.0 Renamed the main script to app.py. I did not like the repeat name chaining..
• v0.1.3 Fixed bug in project_title variable name in the main script template.
• v0.1.2 Borrowed some setup.py code from https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject
• v0.1.1 Added changelog to README.md file.
• v0.1.0 Initial commit.