mccabe VS cookiecutter

mccabe for Ned’s script to check McCabe complexity

Cyclomatic Complexity is a metric used to determine the stability of your code. It basically boils down to the more code you have the more problems that can arise in said code. There are even modules for python to check your cyclomatic complexity. It goes hand in hand with separating your code out into modules. I work for a FAANG company and we usually want to keep our cyclomatic complexity less than 10 with that tool above.

Mccabe—a Python complexity checker;

A more advanced best practice would be separating different functions of your code into different files to keep Cyclomatic Complexity low. More code usually = more problems can be in said code. There’s even a tool you can use to determine how complex your code is called mccabe. Lower is better with that

Flake8: a combination of following linters: PyFlakes, pycodestyle, Ned Batchelder’s McCabe script

Sometimes I use this to abstract boilerplate https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter

It can use a repo as a template.

It supports some interactive questions to choose options but mostly it is jinja templates.

Having libraries would be another option.

Install the cookiecutter package using the following command:

Consider taking a look at cookiecutter to generate projects from templates. There is also cookiecutter-django. As for your environment variables you should have an example .env file containing all the environment variables required by your project (without setting them) that can be safely pushed into your repository for you and other developers to copy into the actual .env file that'll be used by your project (add this file to .gitignore)

The Python Cookiecutter library revolutionizes project development by offering streamlined approach to creating template projects and improving developer experience.

We use cookie cutter templates (the Python project, https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter ), we prompt for the module & version etc

Why not use cookiecutter or a similar tool designed for making these sorts of project templates?

Is it common? I don't know. Is it useful? Absolutely. There is a tool called cookiecutter that allows you to define your own setup. For example, my cookiecutter setup for a python library is here. You can see what it's like by first installing the cookiecutter cli and then running

Also cookiecutter.

Visual Cookiecutter enhances the functionality of cookiecutter by offering unique features such as required fields, conditional input parameters, optional descriptions, and the ability to fix mistakes easily. This package seamlessly integrates with cookiecutter so that all existing templates work out-of-the-box.