Awesome Python Template

A modern Python project template with best practices and cutting-edge tooling.

🚀 Features

• 🔄 Automated releases with Release Drafter and semantic versioning
• 📦 uv for fast, reliable package management
• 🏗️ Source layout with src/{library-name} structure
• 🧪 pytest for comprehensive testing
• 🎨 ruff for lightning-fast linting and formatting
• 🔍 deptry for dependency analysis and unused dependency detection
• ⚡ PoeThePoet for task automation
• 🤖 GitHub Actions with PR welcome messages and slash command support
• 📋 Dedicated config files instead of cramming everything into pyproject.toml

🛠️ Quick Start

1. Clone and setup:

   git clone <your-repo>
   cd <your-repo>
   uv sync --extra dev

2. Run tasks with poe:

   # List all available tasks
   uv run poe
   
   # Run tests
   uv run poe test
   
   # Format and lint code
   uv run poe format
   uv run poe lint
   
   # Run all checks
   uv run poe check

📋 Available Tasks

Core Development

• poe test - Run all tests
• poe test-fast - Run tests with fast exit on first failure
• poe test-cov - Run tests with coverage reporting
• poe lint - Check code style and quality
• poe format - Format code with ruff
• poe format-check - Check if code is properly formatted
• poe deps - Check for unused and missing dependencies

Convenience Tasks

• poe check - Run format check, linting, dependency check, and tests
• poe fix - Auto-format and fix linting issues
• poe pre-commit - Run pre-commit style checks

Build & Install

• poe install - Install with development dependencies
• poe install-prod - Install production dependencies only
• poe build - Build the package

Utilities

• poe clean - Clean up build artifacts and cache
• poe version - Show package version
• poe docs - Generate documentation (placeholder)
• poe typecheck - Run type checking (placeholder)
• poe security - Run security checks (placeholder)

🤖 GitHub Integration

PR Welcome Messages

When you open a pull request, you'll automatically get a welcome message with helpful commands.

Slash Commands

Use /poe <task-name> in PR comments to run tasks:

• /poe test - Run tests
• /poe lint - Check code quality
• /poe format - Format code
• /poe check - Run all checks

Note: For security reasons, slash commands run against the base repository code, not the PR changes. This ensures that untrusted code cannot be executed in a privileged environment.

📁 Project Structure

awesome-python-template/
├── src/
│   └── awesome_python_template/    # Main source code
│       ├── __init__.py
│       └── py.typed
├── tests/                          # Test files
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── test_awesome_python_template.py
├── .github/
│   └── workflows/                  # GitHub Actions
│       ├── pr-welcome.yml
│       └── slash-command-dispatch.yml
├── pyproject.toml                  # Project metadata and minimal config
├── ruff.toml                       # Ruff configuration
├── pytest.ini                     # Pytest configuration
├── poe_tasks.toml                  # PoeThePoet task definitions (reference)
├── uv.lock                         # Dependency lock file
└── README.md                       # This file

🔧 Configuration Files

This template uses dedicated configuration files for each tool:

• ruff.toml - Ruff linting and formatting configuration
• pytest.ini - Pytest testing configuration
• pyproject.toml - Minimal project metadata and poe tasks
• poe_tasks.toml - Reference copy of task definitions

🧪 Testing

Tests are organized with pytest markers:

• @pytest.mark.unit - Unit tests
• @pytest.mark.integration - Integration tests

Run specific test types:

uv run poe test-unit        # Unit tests only
uv run poe test-integration # Integration tests only

📦 Dependencies

Development dependencies are defined in pyproject.toml:

• pytest - Testing framework
• pytest-cov - Coverage reporting
• ruff - Linting and formatting
• deptry - Dependency analysis
• poethepoet - Task runner

Dependency Analysis

This template includes deptry for detecting unused and missing dependencies. To ignore false positives, search for "deptry" in the repository and update the configuration in pyproject.toml:

[tool.deptry]
# To ignore specific error codes globally:
ignore = ["DEP004"]  # Example: ignore misplaced dev dependencies

# To ignore specific packages, use CLI options in poe tasks:
# poe deps --per-rule-ignores DEP002=package-name

🎯 Best Practices

This template follows modern Python best practices:

1. Source layout - Code in src/ directory
2. Dependency management - uv for fast, reliable installs
3. Code quality - Ruff for consistent formatting and linting
4. Testing - Comprehensive pytest setup with coverage
5. Task automation - PoeThePoet for development workflows
6. CI/CD - GitHub Actions with PR automation
7. Configuration - Dedicated files for each tool

🔄 Development Workflow

1. Make your changes
2. Run uv run poe fix to auto-format and fix linting
3. Run uv run poe test to ensure tests pass
4. Push your changes
5. Use /poe <task> commands in PR comments as needed

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup and development guidelines.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.