A python module template

This is a cookiecutter template for a typical Python library following modern packaging conventions.

It utilizes popular libraries to fully automate all development and deployment tasks.

Features

• Core:
  • poetry to rules them all
  • pep-0518 alias pyproject.toml for managing dependencies, package metadata, ...
• Project tooling:
  • Setup formatting with isort and black
  • Analysing with ruff
  • Type checking with pyright
  • Running tests with pytest
  • Poe the Poet for automating common development tasks
• Preconfigured setup for:
  • Github workflow:
    • 'package': launch an install/test/check on each push and pull request on 'main' branch.
    • 'release": on each tag push, launch:
      • a github release
      • a pypi publish . You have to configure a secret 'PYPI_TOKEN' in your git repository.
      • a site documentation publication
  • dependabot to manage dependencies updates.
• Documentation:
  • Docstring styling with pydocstyle
  • Building documentation with mkdocs
  • Auto generation of API reference
  • Expose with documentation site under 'gh-pages' branch per default.

About this project

In 2019, I worked on template-python which was based on Jace's Python Template. For me, the goal was to be able to start quickly a new python project with all basics stuff ever configured, like :

• project definition using pytoml
• all lint tools (isort, black, ...)
• test unit ready to feed
• a basic documentation (about, api, etc...)
• a poetry command line utility (I'm not a big fan of long command line when i develop...)

In 2021, after two years of usage (for personal and work use), it was time to simplify all those things that we did not like: all little stich and glues around a project.

• We did not use precommit anymore, ... Most often, our dev teams by-pass the pre-commit (nasty evils), so we let our ci doing his job (aka KillThemAll target).
• All tooling are configured using pyproject.toml, we wanna avoid the mess of configuration files...

In 2023, 4 year ever, python is always my favorite language (even if I start working around rust ...). It's time to another update:

• Documentation is always/often a painfull point. I had used a lot Sphinx, really like it, but mkdocs just do my things in a very simple way. So let's choose this way.
• flakehell could be replaced by ruff. Less configuration, and quicker so...
• add github action for check current change on build
• automate github release, publish on pypi, site documentation on a tag.

In 2024, we still use a lot of command into makefile, dependencies can be managed with dependabot on github, so in this flavour :

• Replace makefile with Poe the Poet as a poetry plugin
• add dependabot configuration to manage developement and production dependencies update.
• use dependencies group declaration:
  • dev group for all dev tools
  • docs group which can be installed with poetry install --with docs
• add option for package mode: set it to false when you want to use Poetry only for dependency management but not for packaging.
• Since python 3.12 and PEP 696: I quit mypy for pyright, type checking should never be a pain...

Usage

Install cookiecutter and generate a project:

$ pip install cookiecutter jinja2-time
$ cookiecutter gh:geronimo-iia/python-module-template -f

Cookiecutter will ask you for some basic info (your name, project name, python package name, etc.) and generate a base Python project for you.

Poe target list:

Name	Comment
poetry poe check	Run linters and static analysis
poetry poe test	Run unit tests
poetry poe build	Builds the source and wheels archives (and run check & test target)
poetry poe publish	Publishes the package, previously built with the build command, to the remote repository
poetry poe docs	Builds site documentation.
poetry poe docs-publish	Build and publish site documentation.
poetry poe clean	Delete all generated and temporary files
poetry poe requirements	Generate requirements.txt

You could retrieve those commands with poetry poe. It will output something like this :

Poe the Poet - A task runner that works well with poetry.
version 0.25.0

Result: No task specified.

USAGE
  poetry poe [-h] [-v | -q] [--root PATH] [--ansi | --no-ansi] task [task arguments]

GLOBAL OPTIONS
  -h, --help     Show this help page and exit
  --version      Print the version and exit
  -v, --verbose  Increase command output (repeatable)
  -q, --quiet    Decrease command output (repeatable)
  -d, --dry-run  Print the task contents but don't actually run it
  --root PATH    Specify where to find the pyproject.toml
  --ansi         Force enable ANSI output
  --no-ansi      Force disable ANSI output

CONFIGURED TASKS
  build          Build module
  publish        Publish module
  check          Run Linter
  test           Run unit tests
  docs           Build site documentation
  docs-publish   Publish site documentation
  clean          Remove all generated and temporary files
  requirements   Generate requirements.txt

Make Target list:

Name	Comment
make install	Install project dependencies
make configure	Configure poetry
make tag	Create and push a tag based on current project version. This will launch github release action.
make next-patch-version	Increment patch version of the project.

Note on configuration of Poetry

To configure poetry, you could use make configureor run :

# virtualenvs under project folder
poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true

# install needed plugins
poetry self add poetry-plugin-export
poetry self add 'poethepoet[poetry_plugin]'

# update tooling
poetry run python -m pip install --upgrade pip
poetry run python -m pip install --upgrade setuptools

See also:

• https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation
• https://poethepoet.natn.io/installation.html