A cookiecutter for making new Python repositories.
This template is different from @audreyfeldroy's cookiecutter-pypackage because it uses the source layout and has lots of code quality assurance checks built in. If you're looking for something similar but not quite like this, try her package or see her list of alternatives.
I've written several blog posts outlining all the ideas that made it into this template:
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Install
cruft
with:python -m pip install cruft
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Run
cruft
with:cruft create https://github.com/cthoyt/cookiecutter-snekpack
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Enter the requested information, then win! Remember, package names should only have letters, numbers, and underscores.
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If you're working under version control, copy the repository into your folder tracked under git, commit the files, and push to your remote.
You can see an example repository of what happens right after you run these commands at https://github.com/cthoyt/snekpack-demo.
Your new python package will have the following:
- Standard
src/
layout - Declarative setup with
pyproject.toml
(following PEP 621) - Reproducible workflows configured with
tox
ornox
- Reproducible tests with
pytest
and - Reproducible notebooks with
treon
- Documentation build with
sphinx
8.0+ andsphinx-rtd-theme
3.0+ - Testing of code quality with
ruff
- Testing of documentation coverage with
docstr-coverage
- Testing of documentation format
- Testing of package metadata completeness with
pyroma
- Testing of MANIFEST correctness with
check-manifest
- Testing of optional static typing with
mypy
- Version management with
bump-my-version
- Building with
uv build
- Releasing to PyPI with
uv publish
- Reproducible tests with
- A command line interface with
click
- A vanity CLI via python entrypoints
- A
py.typed
file so other packages can use your type hints - Automated running of tests on each push with GitHub Actions
- Configuration for ReadTheDocs
- A good base
.gitignore
generated from gitignore.io. - A pre-formatted README with badges
- A pre-formatted LICENSE file with the MIT License (you can change this to whatever you want, though)
- A pre-formatted CONTRIBUTING guide
- A copy of the Contributor Covenant as a basic code of conduct
Feel free to adapt this template to your needs, but please credit me in your README and link back to https://github.com/cthoyt/cookiecutter-snekpack.
This cookiecutter package is licensed under the MIT License.