Getting started

Create local project

Setup cookiecutter

To start, install the latest Cookiecutter if you haven't installed it yet (this requires Cookiecutter 1.4.0 or higher):

$ pip install -U cookiecutter>=1.4.0

Create local project via cookiecutter

Now you can use cookiecutter to generate your Python package project:

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/mgancita/cookiecutter-pypackage.git

If you will be publishing to PyPI, make sure the name of your project isn't already taken as you will be rejected from uploading to an already existing package.

Now you should have a project directory for your code! Continue on to see how to get it onto GitHub.