I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It

1. uv

   1 231 86,040 10.0 Rust

   An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

   

   If you haven't already you should check out uv: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

   It solves a lot of the package management headaches for me.

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. python-lib

   2 3 228 4.0 Python

   Opinionated cookiecutter template for creating a new Python library

   

   > I would like to have a tool that generates the project structure for me, but I haven’t found one that fits me yet.

   I recommend cookiecutter for the. I have a few templates I've built with that which I use frequently:

   https://github.com/simonw/python-lib

   https://github.com/simonw/click-app

   https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin

   https://github.com/simonw/llm-plugin

   You can run them like this:

     uvx cookiecutter gh:simonw/python-lib

4. click-app

   3 3 411 2.8 Python

   Cookiecutter template for creating new Click command-line tools

   

   > I would like to have a tool that generates the project structure for me, but I haven’t found one that fits me yet.

   I recommend cookiecutter for the. I have a few templates I've built with that which I use frequently:

   https://github.com/simonw/python-lib

   https://github.com/simonw/click-app

   https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin

   https://github.com/simonw/llm-plugin

   You can run them like this:

     uvx cookiecutter gh:simonw/python-lib

5. datasette-plugin

   4 2 26 4.6 Python

   Cookiecutter template for creating Datasette plugins

   

   > I would like to have a tool that generates the project structure for me, but I haven’t found one that fits me yet.

   I recommend cookiecutter for the. I have a few templates I've built with that which I use frequently:

   https://github.com/simonw/python-lib

   https://github.com/simonw/click-app

   https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin

   https://github.com/simonw/llm-plugin

   You can run them like this:

     uvx cookiecutter gh:simonw/python-lib

6. llm-plugin

   5 1 31 4.0 Python

   A cookiecutter template for building plugins for LLM

   

   > I would like to have a tool that generates the project structure for me, but I haven’t found one that fits me yet.

   I recommend cookiecutter for the. I have a few templates I've built with that which I use frequently:

   https://github.com/simonw/python-lib

   https://github.com/simonw/click-app

   https://github.com/simonw/datasette-plugin

   https://github.com/simonw/llm-plugin

   You can run them like this:

     uvx cookiecutter gh:simonw/python-lib

7. mise

   6 143 29,197 10.0 Rust

   dev tools, env vars, task runner

   

   Personal preference, but I prefer to use 'mise' instead of 'asdf' these days: https://mise.jdx.dev/

8. baker

   7 5 11 9.3 Ruby

   Ruby CLI for project setup

   

   My take on this (using Ruby) is https://github.com/coezbek/baker

   It doesn't copy template repos, but rather creates a list of imperative steps to perform. Steps can be both manual (obtain an API key and store it here) and automatic (run 'uv init'). Markdown syntax, ruby string interpolation and bash.

   It came from a deep hate for yml based configs.

9. repo

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10. paper

    9 10 3 8.0 Python

    PAPER - the Python Application, Package and Environment wRangler (by zahlman)

    

11. virtualenv

    10 15 5,040 9.3 Python

    Virtual Python Environment builder

    

12. cookiebaker

    11 1 0 - Python

    Use `cookiecutter` with existing code and git integration

    

    I made a small wrapper for cookiecutter, to handle some minimal Git integration (making a repo and doing the first commit) and to match my workflow better (write some initial code first, then transform it into a "project folder" in place): https://github.com/zahlman/cookiebaker

    I'm not a huge fan of cookiecutter on aesthetic principles, though. I think it's chosen some needlessly heavyweight dependencies for such a simple task. PyYAML comes with a big chunk of compiled C, while performance is really not going to matter and I'd rather use TOML anyway. I've yet to see a project depending on Rich that uses more than a tiny portion of it; this is no exception. More to the point, Rich brings in the much larger Pygments (for syntax highlighting; most of the bulk is actual syntax definition rules for a variety of programming languages) and you can't disable that. And honestly I'm not a fan of the whole "download other people's templates using an integrated client" model anyway; Requests and its dependencies are pretty bulky, too.

13. pipx

    12 44 12,827 8.8 Python

    Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments

    

    Actually, only the second one, because I already had pipx (https://pipx.pypa.io/ — a wrapper for pip that does basic virtual environment management) installed.

    Can you name some specific things in Python you have tried to use, and give more concrete descriptions of how you tried to set them up?

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