Cookiecutter Modern Python Library Template

Overview

This is a cookiecutter template for a modern Python library. It is intended to be used as a starting point for new Python libraries rather than for back end services (though, you can certainly use this template as a base for a backend service). It comes with dependencies for testing, linting, and packaging.

Usage

Pre-Requisites

• Install git
• Install poetry
• Install cookiecutter

Setup a new project

cookiecutter gh:mikelane/cookiecutter-python-library

Answer the questions that cookiecutter asks you. You can accept the defaults by pressing enter.

Cookiecutter will create a new project as a subdirectory of the current working directory with the name you specified. It will also create a git repository and it will install some basic dependencies. Additionally, it will set up pre- commit hooks for linting and formatting.