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Creates the skeleton of your Python project.

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If you are like me, starting a new Python project from the scratch can be boring: create a setup.py, documentation, installation instructions, forget a file or two in the manifest, etc. This all is a time-consuming and error prone work, which gives no intellectual satisfaction. Yet, this is necessary to make your project a good citizen in the open source community.

Boilerplate produces beautiful skeletons for your Python projects so you can get up and running fast. It is influenced by this blog post: http://jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/08/16/open-sourcing-a-python-project-the-right-way/, although we do not follow these recommendations by the letter.

The filesystem structure

The boilerplate start <project> command will create the following tree under the current directory:

.
|- .gitignore
|- LICENSE
|- MANIFEST.in
|- INSTALL.rst
|- README.rst
|- VERSION
|- requirements.txt
|- requirements-dev.txt
|- setup.py
|- docs/
|   |- conf.py
|   |- index.rst
|   |- make.bat
|   |- Makefile
|   |- _static/*
|   \- _templates/*
\- src/
    \- <project>
        |- __init__.py
        |- __meta__.py
        |- <project>.py
        \- test/
            |- __init__.py
            \- test_<project>.py

setup.py

src/*

docs/*

README.rst and INSTALL.rst

VERSION

requirements.txt

MANIFEST.in

LICENSE

.gitignore

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