Between work and personal projects I’ve found that have been creating new python projects left, right, and center. Every time it’s the same thing! Make a directory for the project, and add __main__ and __init__ files. Then you have to create some kind of version and user tracking for the project. Create a setup.py and point it at whatever code launches it. Figure out the requirements and add them to a requirements file. Don’t forget about readme’s and TODO’s. Long story short: it gets tiresome and do the same process over and over again.

Copy and paste is our friend here, but it doesnt make sense to copy an entire poject and delete all the code. It’s almost just as bad as creating a new project.

For this, I created a shell for my python projects on git. Shell projects are nothing new, but I don’t think I’ve seen on for a python project. It’s really made project creation much faster and easier, and while not every project is the same, it’s much easier to make a few changes to an existing shell, than to create one from scratch. Now new projects are as easy as cloning the repo and renaming it. Then it’s a simple matter of adding some contact info and naming the project.

You can see my shell python project here.