Some time ago I wrote about my preference to write Terminal Commands for what I need ¹ and thant was not all.

Sometime More than often I need to build the same basic project for make a Terminal Command and I usualy use makefile² for the building of the project or the command specific for this or that particolar project³ .

So I develop with git and pyproject a "blank" project as template for my personal python project.

The main idea is to build something with all I need for python, not only the "booring stuff". I toke some ispiration from other post and project of mine ^{4 5}

Starting the .venv

I love the .venv and all the cleaner workspace which came with it but I choose, at the begginning, the wrong tool.

In the beginning, I wrote all my project with a pipfile⁶ in mind.

If it is a personal project you need to run only on your machine and not relese anyware else it is a great tool. But with the new white hairs I change my mind.

I find usefull have all ready for mass distribuition of some of my code or having a simpler system to install as a command one script made in Click and, because pyproject will be the new standard, I try it.

PyProject without a tool is horrible. It's easy to read butyou need to know all the parameters and keywords soo...

And I need others tools which are inside dedicate dotfiles so I search for something more funtional and easy to use and poetry was suggested to me.

Poetry

Poetry is a terminal tool for creating and manipolation of venv and pyproject.toml's files. With some expirience I add more stuff in the pyproject for the basic.

Pre-Commit and Editor-config

Some time I work at night or with time restriction I make error or make something not python-like but spaghetti-like and this is bad.

For this reason I add pre-commit⁷ and editorconfig for autofix all this minor error. And because I add pre-commit I add more dotfiles for configurations of all the parts of the project and the tools.

With pre-commit setted for your project you have an automatic way to check your code and valitated the new code without pushing and "waysting" CI cycles ⁸ .

Editor config if one of the best thing I find on the web. It is divided in two part:

1. A config file (.editorconfig) with the indication for all the type of the file of the project and how they must be formatted⁹
2. A checker (IDE, IDE Plugin, CI) which format the code following the .editorconfig file

Conclusion

This is a generic python project but you can do it for all the type of projects and make your personal templating repo of Github