cookiecutter-pylibrary

Cookiecutter template for a Python library.

Notes:

• There's a bare library using this template (if you're curious about the final result): https://github.com/FragileTech/mloq_template.

Features

This is an "all inclusive" sort of template.

• Choice of various licenses.
• Pytest for testing Python 3.9+, PyPy etc.
• Optional support for creating a tests matrix out of dependencies and python versions.
• Codecov for coverage tracking (using Tox).
• Documentation with Sphinx, ready for ReadTheDocs.
• Configurations for:
  • isort
  • bumpversion (bump2version required)
  • ruff For linting and formatting your code.
• Packaging and code quality checks. This template comes with a tox environment (check) that will:
  • Check if your README.md is valid.
  • Check if the MANIFEST.in has any issues.

Requirements

Projects using this template have these minimal dependencies:

• Cookiecutter - just for creating the project.
• Setuptools - for building the package, wheels etc. Nowadays Setuptools is widely available, it shouldn't pose a problem :)

To get quickly started on a new system, just install setuptools and then install pip. That's the bare minimum required to install Tox and Cookiecutter. To install them, just run this in your shell or command prompt:

pip install cookiecutter

Usage and options

This template is more involved than the regular cookiecutter-pypackage.

First generate your project:

cookiecutter gh:FragileTech/mloq-cookiecutter

You will be asked for these fields:

Note: Fields that work together usually use the same prefix. If you answer "no" on the first one then the rest won't have any effect so just ignore them. Maybe in the future cookiecutter will allow option hiding or something like a wizard.

full_name

Default:

"Guillem Duran Ballester"

Main author of this library or application (used in AUTHORS.md and pyproject.toml).

Can be set in your ~/.cookiecutterrc config file.

email

Default:

"[email protected]"

Contact email of the author (used in AUTHORS.md and pyproject.toml).

Can be set in your ~/.cookiecutterrc config file.

website

Default:

"https://fragile.tech"

Website of the author (used in AUTHORS.md).

Can be set in your ~/.cookiecutterrc config file.

repo_username

Default:

"FragileTech"

GitHub username of this project (used for GitHub link).

Can be set in your ~/.cookiecutterrc config file.

project_name

Default:

"MLOQ Template"

Verbose project name, used in headings (docs, readme, etc).

repo_hosting_domain

Default:

"github.com"

Use "no" for no hosting (various links will disappear). You can also use "gitlab.com" and such but various things will be broken.

repo_name

Default:

"mloq-template"

Repository name on GitHub (and project's root directory name).

package_name

Default:

"mloq_template"

Python package name (whatever you would import).

distribution_name

Default:

"mloq_template"

PyPI distribution name (what you would pip install).

module_name

Default:

"core"

This template assumes there's going to be an "implementation" module inside your package.

project_short_description

Default:

"An example package [...]"

One line description of the project (used in README.md and pyproject.toml).

release_date

Default:

"today"

Release date of the project (ISO 8601 format) default to today (used in CHANGELOG.md).

year

Default:

"now"

Copyright year (used in Sphinx conf.py).

version

Default:

"0.1.0"

Release version (see .bumpversion.cfg and in Sphinx conf.py).

Enables the use of setuptools-scm. You can continue using bumpversion with this enabled.

command_line_interface

Default:

"plain"

Option to enable a CLI (a bin/executable file). Available options:

• plain - a very simple command.
• argparse - a command implemented with argparse.
• click - a command implemented with click - which you can use to build more complex commands.
• no - no CLI at all.

command_line_interface_bin_name

Default:

"nameless"

Name of the CLI bin/executable file (set the console script name in setup.py).

license

Default:

"BSD license"

License to use. Available options:

• MIT license
• BSD license
• ISC license
• Apache Software License 2.0

What license to pick? https://choosealicense.com/

codecov

Default:

"yes"

Enable pushing coverage data to Codecov and add badge in README.md.

sphinx_docs

Default:

"yes"

Have Sphinx documentation.

sphinx_docs_hosting

Default:

"repo_name.readthedocs.io"

Leave as default if your documentation will be hosted on readthedocs. If your documentation will be hosted elsewhere (such as GitHub Pages or GitLab Pages), enter the top-level URL.

pypi_badge

Default:

"yes"

By default, this will insert links to your project's page on PyPI.org. If you choose "no", then these links will not be created.

pypi_disable_upload

Default:

"no"

If you specifically want to be sure your package will never be accidentally uploaded to PyPI, you can pick "yes".

Developing the project

To format and lint the code:

  rye run style

To run all the tests, just run:

rye run test

To see all the hatch environments:

TODO

To only build the docs:

rye run build-docs

To build and verify that the built package is proper and other code QA checks:

rye run check

Releasing the project

Before releasing your package on PyPI you should have all the tests in the different environments passing.

Version management

This template provides a basic bumpversion configuration. It's as simple as running:

• bumpversion patch to increase version from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1.
• bumpversion minor to increase version from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0.
• bumpversion major to increase version from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0.

You should read Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 before bumping versions.

Building and uploading

TODO

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

Questions & answers

There's no Makefile?

Sorry, no Makefile yet. The Hatch environments stand for whatever you'd have in a Makefile.

Why is the version stored in several files (pkg/__init__.py, setup.py, docs/conf.py)?

We cannot use a metadata/version file¹ because this template is to be used with both distributions of packages (dirs with __init__.py) and modules (simple .py files that go straight in site-packages). There's no good place for that extra file if you're distributing modules.

But this isn't so bad - bumpversion manages the version string quite neatly.

Not Exactly What You Want?

No way, this is the best. 😜

If you have criticism or suggestions please open up an Issue or Pull Request.

Footnotes

1. Example, an __about__.py file. ↩