skelpy is a simple template tool to create the directory structure for python projects. In addition to creating basic directories for a project, skelpy generates several configuration files for widely-used tools. Those include:

• setup.py and setup.cfg for setuptools
• conf.py, index.rst for sphinx documentation

For the complete directory structure and files for skelpy to create, see quick_start

Features

OS Independent

skelpy supports Linux, Windows, OSX and Cygwin.

No Dependency

skelpy was written in pure python and requires no extra library or module unless you want to run the test codes of skelpy yourself. In that case, you will need pytest and mock (only if you use python 2.7 and 3.3 downward)

Note

mock is now part of the Python standard library, available as unittest.mock in Python 3.3 onwards.

Support python 2.7 and 3.x

skelpy works well on python 2.7 and 3.x.

Install

From PyPi

On the command line, just type either of belows:

pip install skelpy
or
pip install --user skelpy

The first one is for system-wide installation and you may need the administrator /root privilege. The second command will install skelpy in the user's python install directory, which is ~/.local/ on linux and Mac, %APPDATA%Python on Windows.

From Git

Another option is to download skelpy's source codes using git and to build an executable zip file. skelpy's setup.py can build the zip-formatted executable. To do that, run the command below in order:

$ git clone https://github.com/june3474/skelpy.git
$ cd skelpy
$ python setup.py ezip

Now you will be able to find an excutable zip file named skelpy.zip in the dist directory . Once got the zip file--changing the name of the zip file is OK--, you can directly run the zip file as if it were a python module like below:

python skelpy.zip [options_for_skelpy] [project_name_to_create]

Or, if you use Linux or any POSIX-compatible OS, you can make the zip file an executable:

$ echo '#!/usr/bin/env python' > skelpy
$ cat skelpy.zip >> skelpy
$ chmod u+x skelpy

Codes above are from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python" by Kenneth Reitz and Tanya Schlusser.

Quick Start

To start a new project, say 'my_project', just type on the command line

skelpy my_project

This will create a new folder my_project under the current directory and fill the directory with sub-directories and configuration files like below:

'basic' format(default)                   'src' format

my_project/                               my_project/
├── docs/                                 ├── docs/
│   ├── _build/                           │   ├── _build/
│   ├── _static/                          │   ├── _static/
│   ├── _templates/                       │   ├── _templates/
│   ├── conf.py                           │   ├── conf.py
│   ├── index.rst                         │   ├── index.rst
│   ├── make.bat                          │   ├── make.bat
│   └── Makefile                          │   └── Makefile
├── my_project/                           ├── src/
│   ├── __init__.py                       │   └── my_project/
│   └── main.py                           │       ├── __init__.py
├── tests/                                │       └── main.py
│    └── test_main.py                     ├── tests/
├── LICENSE                               │    └── test_main.py
├── README.rst                            ├── LICENSE
├── setup.cfg                             ├── README.rst
└── setup.py                              ├── setup.cfg
                                          └── setup.py

You can choose which structure to use with the --format/-f option. Also, if you do not provide the project name, skelpy will consider the current directory name(the last component of the current working directory) to be the project name.

For more options, See skelpy -h

License

skelpy is under the MIT license.

Author

dks <[email protected]>

Change Log

## [1.0.rc0] - 2019-04-13

## [1.0.0] - 2019-05-31

Reference

Reference is available at https://june3474.github.io/skelpy/api/modules.html