Modern Python Projects Transcripts
Chapter: Let's build a package
Lecture: Start with a cookiecutter template
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The first step in our project is to find a cookie cutter template that we're going
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to use. Okay, there is actually Step 0 where we have to install cookie cutter on our computer. But as you can see,
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I have already done it, in the past chapters. If you don't have cookie cutter,
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you can run pip install cookie-cutter or pipx install cookie-cutter and you're all set. So now let's go to the Git Hub page of cookie cutter and
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find the list of available templates. So, we go here and search for Pantry.
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So we go here and here we can see all the repositories tagged with cookie cutter Let's search for a package,
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since building a Python package is a popular thing to do. It's one of the very first cookie cutter templates that we see,
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and it actually has a lot of stars, so that's probably the one we want to use.
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Let's go inside and see the list of features that it offers, out of the box will have pytest, which is good.
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Travis-CI, which I don't really care about, tox if you want to make sure that your package works with different Python versions,
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Sphinx that were going to use. So, that's good. bump2version, which is a tool that you can use to bump
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versions, when you want to release a new version of your package. There is also feature to Auto-release pypi when you push a new tag to
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master, which is quite interesting, but it's a bit more advanced features, so I'm not going to use it. And although CLI interface using click,
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which we already have, so that's not good nor bad all in all it looks like a pretty solid and standard. Python package cookie cutter template,
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so let's use it. So here I have the empty directory and I'm going to run my cookie cutter here, again,
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we have a set of questions that we have to answer.