pyscaffold package

Submodules

pyscaffold.info module

Provide general information about the system, user etc.

pyscaffold.info.email()

Retrieve the user’s email

Returns:user’s email as string

pyscaffold.info.is_git_configured()

Check if user.name and user.email is set globally in git

Returns:boolean

pyscaffold.info.is_git_installed()

Check if git is installed

Returns:boolean

pyscaffold.info.project(args)

Update user settings with the settings of an existing PyScaffold project

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:updated command line parameters as argparse.Namespace

pyscaffold.info.username()

Retrieve the user’s name

Returns:user’s name as string

pyscaffold.repo module

Functionality for working with a git repository

pyscaffold.repo.git_tree_add(struct, prefix='')

Adds recursively a directory structure to git

Parameters:

• struct – directory structure as dictionary of dictionaries
• prefix – prefix for the given directory structure as string

pyscaffold.repo.init_commit_repo(project, struct)

Initialize a git repository

Parameters:

• project – path to the project as string
• struct – directory structure as dictionary of dictionaries

pyscaffold.repo.is_git_repo(folder)

Check if a folder is a git repository

Parameters:folder – path as string

pyscaffold.runner module

Command-Line-Interface of PyScaffold

pyscaffold.runner.main(args)

Main entry point of PyScaffold

Parameters:args – command line parameters as list of strings

pyscaffold.runner.parse_args(args)

Parse command line parameters

Parameters:args – command line parameters as list of strings Returns:command line parameters as argparse.Namespace

pyscaffold.runner.run(*args, **kwargs)

Entry point for setup.py

pyscaffold.shell module

Shell commands like git, django-admin.py etc.

class pyscaffold.shell.Command(command)

Bases: object

Shell command that can be called with flags like git(‘add’, ‘file’)

Parameters:command – command to handle

pyscaffold.shell.called_process_error2exit_decorator(func)

Decorator to convert given CalledProcessError to an exit message

This avoids displaying nasty stack traces to end-users

pyscaffold.shell.django_admin = <pyscaffold.shell.Command object at 0x5e15350>

Command for django-admin.py

pyscaffold.shell.git = <pyscaffold.shell.Command object at 0x5e15310>

Command for git

pyscaffold.structure module

Functionality to generate and work with the directory structure of a project

pyscaffold.structure.check_files_exist(struct, prefix=None)

Checks which files exist in a directory structure

Parameters:

• struct – directory structure as dictionary of dictionaries
• prefix – prefix path for the structure

Returns:

returns a dictionary of dictionaries where keys representing files exists in the filesystem.

pyscaffold.structure.create_django_proj(args)

Creates a standard Django project with django-admin.py

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace

pyscaffold.structure.create_structure(struct, prefix=None, update=False)

Manifests a directory structure in the filesystem

Parameters:

• struct – directory structure as dictionary of dictionaries
• prefix – prefix path for the structure
• update – update an existing directory structure as boolean

pyscaffold.structure.make_structure(args)

Creates the project structure as dictionary of dictionaries

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:structure as dictionary of dictionaries

pyscaffold.structure.remove_from_struct(orig_struct, del_struct)

Removes files existing in del_struct from structure orig_struct

Parameters:

• orig_struct – directory structure as dictionary of dictionaries
• del_struct – directory structure as dictionary of dictionaries

Returns:

directory structure as dictionary of dictionaries

pyscaffold.structure.set_default_args(args)

Set default arguments for some parameters

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:command line parameters as argparse.Namespace

pyscaffold.templates module

Templates for all files of a project’s scaffold

pyscaffold.templates.authors(args)

Template of AUTHORS.rst

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.best_fit_license(txt)

Finds proper license name for the license defined in txt

Parameters:txt – license name as string Returns:license name as string

pyscaffold.templates.coveragerc(args)

Template of .coveragerc

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.get_template(name)

Retrieve the template by name

Parameters:name – name of template Returns:template as string.Template

pyscaffold.templates.gitattributes(args)

Template of .gitattributes

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.gitignore(args)

Template of .gitignore

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.gitignore_empty(args)

Template of empty .gitignore

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.init(args)

Template of __init__.py

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.license(args)

Template of LICENSE.txt

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.manifest_in(args)

Template of MANIFEST.in

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.pre_commit_config(args)

Template of .pre-commit-config.yaml

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.readme(args)

Template of README.rst

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.requirements(args)

Template of requirements.txt

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.setup(args)

Template of setup.py

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.sphinx_conf(args)

Template of conf.py

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.sphinx_index(args)

Template of index.rst

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.sphinx_license(args)

Template of license.rst

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.sphinx_makefile(args)

Template of Sphinx’s Makefile

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.tox(args)

Template of tox.ini

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.travis(args)

Template of .travis.yml

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.travis_install(args)

Template of travis_install.sh

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.version(args)

Template of _version.py

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.templates.versioneer(args)

Template of versioneer.py

Parameters:args – command line parameters as argparse.Namespace Returns:file content as string

pyscaffold.utils module

Miscellaneous utilities and tools

class pyscaffold.utils.ObjKeeper(name, bases, dct)

Bases: type

Metaclass to keep track of generated instances of a class

instances = {}

pyscaffold.utils.capture_objs(cls)

Captures the instances of a given class during runtime

param cls:class to capture return:dynamic list with references to all instances of cls

pyscaffold.utils.chdir(*args, **kwds)

Contextmanager to change into a directory

Parameters:path – path to change into as string

pyscaffold.utils.exceptions2exit(exception_list)

Decorator to convert given exceptions to exit messages

This avoids displaying nasty stack traces to end-users

Parameters:exception_list – list of exceptions to convert

pyscaffold.utils.git2pep440(ver_str)

Converts a git description to a PEP440 conforming string

Parameters:ver_str – git version description Returns:PEP440 version description

pyscaffold.utils.is_valid_identifier(string)

Check if string is a valid package name

Parameters:string – package name as string Returns:boolean

pyscaffold.utils.levenshtein(s1, s2)

Calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings

Parameters:

• s1 – first string
• s2 – second string

Returns:

distance between s1 and s2 as integer

pyscaffold.utils.list2str(lst, indent=0)

Generate a Python syntax list string with an indention

Parameters:

• lst – list
• indent – indention as integer

Returns:

string

pyscaffold.utils.make_valid_identifier(string)

Try to make a valid package name identifier from a string

Parameters:string – invalid package name as string Returns:valid package name as string or RuntimeError

pyscaffold.utils.safe_get(namespace, attr)

Safely retrieve the value of a namespace’s attribute

Parameters:

• namespace – namespace as argparse.Namespace object
• attr – attribute name as string

Returns:

value of the attribute or None

pyscaffold.utils.safe_set(namespace, attr, value)

Safely set an attribute of a namespace object

The new attribute is set only if the attribute did not exist or was None.

Parameters:

• namespace – namespace as argparse.Namespace object
• attr – attribute name as string
• value – value for new attribute

pyscaffold.utils.utf8_decode(string)

Decode a Python 2 str object to unicode for compatibility with Python 3

Parameters:string – Python 2 str object or Python 3 str object Returns:Python 2 unicode object or Python 3 str object

pyscaffold.utils.utf8_encode(string)

Encode a Python 2 unicode object to str for compatibility with Python 3

Parameters:string – Python 2 unicode object or Python 3 str object Returns:Python 2 str object or Python 3 str object

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