template-python-project 📄

This is intended to be a repository to serve as a template to my own, and others projects using Python.

Contents

• .github/workflows/: contains the GitHub Actions workflows.
• .vscode/: contains the settings for Visual Studio Code.
• .devcontainer/: contains the settings for the development container and the development Dockerfile.
• app/: contains the source code of the project.
• tests/: contains the tests of the project.

Getting Started

This template relies on using Docker for development and using Visual Studio Code as the IDE.

Pre-requisites

• Docker
• Visual Studio Code
• Remote - Containers extension

Step by Step

To start developing in any repository using this template:

• Clone the repository
• Open the repository in VSCode
• Setup intended Python version in the Dockerfile.dev
• Press F1 and type Remote-Containers: Reopen in Container
• Start developing 🚀

During this setup, suggested extensions will be installed in the container, and the Python environment will be created, with pytest, coverage, poetry and black installed.

Configuration

• Github Action: details needed configuration for the GitHub Actions workflows.

Useful links:

• support status of python in the Python Developer's Guide.
• vulnerabilities in the Mailing List by Python Software Foundation CVE Numbering Authority and Python Security Response Team.
• Microsoft Package Template for Python here.

Common Issues

Dev Container Cannot Start - Issue with communicating with Docker Enginer

Repro steps:

• Ensure docker enginer is running
• Have the required base docker image stored cached
• Attempt to Open in Container or Rebuild and Open in Container in repository

Issue:

• Visual Studio Code gets stuck
• Dev Containers extension Logs we can see an issue of Visual Studio Code server communicating with docker engine: whenever a docker command is called, an error with the API is reported

Attempts:

• Restart Visual Studio Code
• Restarted Docker
• Restart computer

Solution:

• Updated Docker

Dev Container Cannot Start - Network issue

Repro steps:

• Ensure docker enginer is running
• Attempt to Open in Container or Rebuild and Open in Container in repository

Issue:

• Dev container cannot start building

Solution:

• Have no internet connectivity to get docker image from remote registry