In the interest of learning new (new-ish I guess since it's not really a new language?) things, I've been working through some introductory #rubyonrails guides. It really makes me wish #python had a built-in template project like "rails new" that creates all the default config settings and files rather than having to build all that from scratch. Unless it has that and I just missed it along the way?
@wxheather depends what you’re trying to achieve. Some of the more opinionated web frameworks provide that and there’s a plethora of cookie-cutter projects as well.
Nowadays I’m a big user of poetry and their initialisation of a project will do that for you with tests. Highly recommended if you haven’t come across and just want generic Python development.
@mentor Thank you! I am thinking I might have to sign up for #AdventOfCode this year to give these tools a test drive.
@wxheather poetry is the sort of tool I wish existed years ago. Makes life so easy now.
If you want a good, detailed, yet accessible introduction to some of the tools and best practices I’d recommend reading the excellent Hypermodern Python series of articles from a couple of years ago. In some cases might be sledgehammer to crack a nut but some great stuff in there https://cjolowicz.github.io/posts/hypermodern-python-01-setup/