Python Template

A Python project template to save you time and energy.

Python projects take a long time to setup with all the various files, the virtual environment, and keeping things uniform across projects. With this Python template, you can quickly setup boilerplate code and miscellaneous items for your Python project saving you time and energy so you can get back to coding.

Install

Click the Use this template button at the top of this project's GitHub page, it looks like this:

Usage

Easy text replacements

1. Replace all instances of project_name with the name of your project
   • These are the Python snake_case references (eg: project_name)
2. Replace all instances of PROJECT_NAME_URL with the name of your project
   • These are the references to your project that will appear in URLs and are typically hyphenated (eg: project-name)
3. Replace all instances of USERNAME with the name of the author or owner of the project
   • These are references typically found in the URL of your project as it appears on GitHub

File configuration

1. Configure the setup.py file
2. Configure the Makefile targets
3. Update the name in the LICENSE or swap it out entirely
4. Configure the .github/workflows/build.yml file
5. Update the CHANGELOG.md with your own info
6. Rename other files/folders as needed and configure their content
7. Delete this README and rename README_project.md to README.md

GitHub configuration

1. Add a PYPI_API_TOKEN GitHub secret to your project so that automated releasing can occur from GitHub Actions to PyPI and uncomment the final step on the release job in .github/workflows/release.yml

Attribution

• Watch the video where I built this template.