🐍🍪 Yet another Python cookiecutter

A strongly opinionated, bleeding-edge Python template

Quickstart¤

Install the latest Cookiecutter

pip install -U cookiecutter

and generate a Python package project:

cookiecutter gh:billsioros/cookiecutter-pypackage

An up-to-date instance of the cookicutter template can be found here

Features¤

• Dependency tracking using Poetry.
• Multi-version documentation extracted from source code provided by MkDocs, mkdocstrings, Material for MkDocs and mike and hosted on GitHub Pages.
• Automated dependency and security updates with Renovate and Dependabot.
• Formatting provided by black and isort.
• Testing setup with pytest.
• Coverage reports with Coverage.py and Codecov.
• Static type checking by mypy.
• Security checks with CodeQL.
• Linting provided by Ruff.
• Git hooks managed by pre-commit.
• Development tasks (lint, format, test, etc) provided by Poe The Poet.
• CI facilitated by Github Actions.
• Automated CHANGELOG generation, GitHub releases and PyPI releases facilitated by Python Semantic Release.
• Preview documentation changes introduced via a PR on surge.
• Automatically fix typos in your source code and documentation via Misspell Fixer.
• Beautiful YAML issue templates.
• Informative PR template and Security Policy.
• Inform new contributors about the project's guidelines using First Interaction.
• Add informative comments on issues & PRs based on assigned labels using Label Commenter.
• Manage project labels with GitHub Labeler.
• License scanning provided by GitHub Dependency Review.
• Automatically update the copyright year span using Update License Year.
• Pre-configured funding on Buy Me a Coffee.
• Automatically close stale issues/PRs using Stale Bot.
• Ready-to-use .editorconfig and .gitignore.
• Be always ready to code using GitHub Codespaces.

The template supports Python 3.7 or higher.

Citation¤

@misc{cookiecutter-pypackage,
  author = {Vasilis Sioros},
  title = {cookiecutter-pypackage: A strongly opinionated, bleeding-edge Python template},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/billsioros/cookiecutter-pypackage}}
}

Documentation¤

The project's documentation can be found here.

Support the project¤

Feel free to Buy me a coffee! ☕.

Contributing¤

If you would like to contribute to the project, please go through the Contributing Guidelines first.