Important
This template is archived.
UV can now generate a sample project
I recommend using UV to bootstrap your peojects.
Copier is a tools that can bootstrap projects from templates.
A low dependency and really simple to start project template for Python Projects.
See also
- Flask-Project-Template for a full feature Flask project including database, API, admin interface, etc.
- FastAPI-Project-Template The base to start an openapi project featuring: SQLModel, Typer, FastAPI, JWT Token Auth, Interactive Shell, Management Commands.
DO NOT FORK this is meant to be used from Use this template feature.
- Click on Use this template
- Give a name to your project
(e.g. my_awesome_project recommendation is to use all lowercase and underscores separation for repo names.)
- Wait until the first run of CI finishes
(Github Actions will process the template and commit to your new repo)
- If you want codecov Reports and Automatic Release to PyPI
On the new repository settings->secrets add your PYPI_API_TOKEN and CODECOV_TOKEN (get the tokens on respective websites)
- Read the file CONTRIBUTING.md
- Then clone your new project and happy coding!
NOTE: WAIT until first CI run on github actions before cloning your new project.
What is included on this template?
- 🖼️ Templates for starting multiple application types:
- Basic low dependency Python program (default) use this template
- Flask with database, admin interface, restapi and authentication use this template.
or Run make init after cloning to generate a new project based on a template.
- 📦 A basic setup.py file to provide installation, packaging and distribution for your project.
Template uses setuptools because it's the de-facto standard for Python packages, you can run make switch-to-poetry later if you want.
- 🤖 A Makefile with the most useful commands to install, test, lint, format and release your project.
- 📃 Documentation structure using mkdocs
- 💬 Auto generation of change log using gitchangelog to keep a HISTORY.md file automatically based on your commit history on every release.
- 🐋 A simple Containerfile to build a container image for your project.
Containerfile is a more open standard for building container images than Dockerfile, you can use buildah or docker with this file.
- 🧪 Testing structure using pytest
- ✅ Code linting using flake8
- 📊 Code coverage reports using codecov
- 🛳️ Automatic release to PyPI using twine and github actions.
- 🎯 Entry points to execute your program using python -m <project_name> or $ project_name with basic CLI argument parsing.
- 🔄 Continuous integration using Github Actions with jobs to lint, test and release your project on Linux, Mac and Windows environments.
Curious about architectural decisions on this template? read ABOUT_THIS_TEMPLATE.md
If you want to contribute to this template please open an issue or fork and send a PULL REQUEST.
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project_description
from project_name import BaseClass
from project_name import base_function
BaseClass().base_method()
base_function()
$ python -m project_name
#or
$ project_name
Read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.