psp (Python Scaffolding Projects)

psp is a blazing fast command line utility to scaffold your Python project, written in Rust.

• ⚡️ 1-100x faster compared to other scaffolding tools
• 🛠️ pyproject.toml support
• 🤝 Python 3.13 compatibility
• 🗃 Scaffolding file and folder structures for your Python project
• 📦 Unit-test and pytest support
• 🧪 Create a virtual environment
• 🔧 Automagically dependencies installation
• 🪛 Add build and deploy dependencies to distribute the package
• 📏 tox configuration supports and remotes CI like CircleCI and TravisCI
• ⌨️ MkDocs and Sphinx documentation support
• 🧰 Initialize git repository and gitignore file
• 🌎 GitHub and Gitlab remote repository support
• 📑 Create README, LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT and CHANGES files
• 🐳 Create Dockerfile and Containerfile for your project
• 💡 Can use quick, simple and full argument for rapid configuration
• 💾 Create $HOME/.psp.env and $PWD/.env files with your customizations
• 🎛️ Can use some PSP_ variables to control your defaults

🚀 Get Started in 30 Seconds

The result is:

$> tree test/ --filelimit=19 -a
test                    # Project folder
├── LICENSE.md          # License file
├── pyproject.toml      # Python package configuration file
├── README.md           # Readme file
├── CHANGES.md          # List of changes
├── .circleci           # CI folder
│   └── config.yml      # CI configuration file
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md  # Code of Conduct
├── CONTRIBUTING.md     # Contributing guide lines
├── Containerfile       # Standard container file for build image
├── Dockerfile          # Docker container file for build image
├── Makefile            # Makefile for command make; make help
├── requirements.txt    # Dependencies list used by third programs
├── docs                # Documentation folder: Sphinx/MKDocs
│   ├── build
│   ├── make.bat
│   ├── Makefile
│   └── source
│       ├── conf.py
│       ├── index.rst
│       ├── _static
│       └── _templates
├── .git                # Git folder
│   ├── branches
│   ├── config
│   ├── description
│   ├── HEAD
│   ├── hooks  [14 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
│   ├── info
│   │   └── exclude
│   ├── objects
│   │   ├── info
│   │   └── pack
│   └── refs
│       ├── heads
│       └── tags
├── .github             # Github issue and merge templates
│   ├── ISSUE_TEMPLATE
│   │   ├── bug.yml
│   │   ├── config.yml
│   │   └── feature.yml
│   └── PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE
│       └── pull_request_template.md
├── .gitignore          # Git ignore file
├── test                # Python package
│   └── __init__.py
├── tests               # Tests package for modules
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── test_test.py    # Test module "test_<name_python_package>"
├── tox.ini             # Tox configuration files
└── venv                # Virtual environment
    ├── bin  [33 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
    ├── include
    │   └── python3.13
    ├── lib
    │   └── python3.13
    │       └── site-packages  [68 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
    ├── lib64 -> lib
    └── pyvenv.cfg

29 directories, 44 files

And git status is:

$> git status
On branch main

No commits yet
...
$> git remote get-url origin
git@github.com:MatteoGuadrini/test.git

🔌 Prerequisites

psp has four prerequisetes installed on own machine:

• git
• python3
• pip
• curl

Ubuntu based prerequisites installation

sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip git curl

Red Hat based prerequisites installation

sudo dnf install -y python3 python3-pip git curl

Arch based prerequisites installation

sudo pacman -Qi python3 python3-pip git curl

💿 Installation

To install compiled file into your machine, download it:

Linux

For all users:

sudo -i
curl -L https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/psp/releases/download/v0.2.0/psp_linux -o /usr/bin/psp
chmod +x /usr/bin/psp

For current user:

curl -L https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/psp/releases/download/v0.2.0/psp_linux -o $HOME/.local/bin/psp
chmod +x $HOME/.local/bin/psp

MacOS

sudo su -
curl -L https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/psp/releases/download/v0.2.0/psp_macos -o /usr/bin/psp
chmod +x /usr/bin/psp

Packages

If you want install OS package, follow instructions for your Operating System:

For Debian/Ubuntu:

curl -L https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/psp/releases/download/v0.2.0/psp.deb -o psp.deb
sudo dpkg -i psp.deb

For Fedora/Mageia/OpenSuse:

sudo rpm -i https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/psp/releases/download/v0.2.0/psp.rpm

Compile as your own

Instead, if you compile this project as own, follow this steps:

git clone https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/psp.git
cd psp && cargo build --release && sudo cp -v target/release/psp /usr/bin/psp && chmod +x /usr/bin/psp

Open source

psp is an open source project. Any contribute, It's welcome.

A great thanks.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff and Nora Tindall for writing the Programming Rust book that make up my Rust foundation.

Thanks to Tim McNamara for writing the Rust in Action book.

Thanks to Zed IDE and for license of RustRover offered by Jetbrains.

Special thanks go to my wife, who understood the hours of absence for this development. Thanks to my children, for the daily inspiration they give me and to make me realize, that life must be simple.

Thanks, Rust Community!