Python Package Cookiecutter

Cookiecutter template for a Python package.

• GitHub repo: https://github.com/jdongian/cookiecutter-pypackage/
• Free software: BSD license

Features

• Good requirements handling with parsing from requirements.txt and requirements_dev.txt files
• # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- headers
• unittest test boilerplate
• tiny argparse shim
• tox to set up testing matrix for multiple python versions
• Sphinx docs: Documentation ready for generation with, for example, ReadTheDocs

Usage

Install latest Cookiecutter (requires Cookiecutter 1.4.0 or higher):

pip install -U cookiecutter

Generate Python package template:

cookiecutter https://github.com/jdongian/cookiecutter-pypackage.git

About

Based loosely on https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter