Poe the Poet VS cookiecutter

Compatible with the new pyproject.toml standard, and working well with poetry, there's poethepoet. It's a good alternative, it keeps in the python environment, it's installable through pip(x), and it's cross platform for the windows pythonistas (and there are some, not everyone has more than 1 computer at home...)

I use Poe The Poet https://github.com/nat-n/poethepoet.

So the Poetry maintainer has explained here about why they don’t have the better scripts support you mentioned. However, someone has already built this plugin for Poetry to achieve it.

Poe the Poet, probably.

I've been working on this tool for a while now, which I'm starting to feel is ready for a bit more exposure, it's called Poe the Poet.

nat-n: developer of poethepoet

poe: Not Django-specific, but nice task-runner that uses pyproject.toml

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.