This Python package represents a template for new radical python projects. It will place python modules into the radical namespace. It provides an installer, testing stubs, module stubs, and a Makefile which supports the most common activities. A Makefile is also used to customize this template to a specific project name.

This software is released under the LGPL License v3.0.

• copy or clone this template into a fresh directory
• call NAME=my_module make templatize

This repository comes with two make files Makefile and Makefile.in, and a set of files which are templatized. The first Makefile will apply a module name to those templates, this converting this code tree into a viable, installable and testable python module. This is done by calling:

  NAME=violet make templatize

The example invocation above would morph the current file hierarchy in this directory into a python module named radical.violet.

Note that the call to make templatize will (re)move the original git repository, so that the slate is clean for setting up the module's actual git origin (see 'Other Make Targets' below).

This will also replace the Makefile with Makefile.in, which is then able to provide a very different set of commands. The following ones should work out of the box (some will create a virtualenv on the fly):

   make install
   make docs
   make test
   make pylint
   make clean

Once the templitization is completed, the new Makefile will provide guidance on setting up a radical git repository, jenkins integgration, read-the-docs, and pypi uploading. make help shows a short summary for each item:

> make help

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    [...]

    make install
        use 'pip install' to install in virtualenv in ./ve/

    make pylint
        run pylint check on all python source files in radical/

    make pypi
        create source distribution and upload to pypi

    make test
        run unit tests via pytest

    make docs
        build documentation via sphinx

    make prep_git
        Follow the guidelines to set up and populate a repository on github.

    make prep_rtd
        Follow the guidelines to set up readthedocs

    make prep_pypi
        Follow the guidelines to set up pypi poackaging and upload

    make prep_jenkins
        Follow the guidelines to set up Jenkins testing
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