Generic Python Template

A generic Python project template for MF-DAS. Use this for "standard" Python packages.

After initializing your project from this template I would advice to do the following:

• Enable GitHub Pages by going to Settings -> Pages and under Build and deployment subsection Source choose GitHub Actions instead of Deploy from a branch.
• Change the name of your package by checking out the project and doing git mv src/project_name src/your_actual_project_name where your_actual_project_name is the name you chose for your project. After that git commit -am "change package name" and git push.
• Change the project name and other information in the pyproject.toml.
• Open .githubt/workflows/pdoc.yml in an editor and change project_name to the proper project name.

GitHub Actions

CI/CD tasks for your project will be handled by GitHub Actions which are CI/CD pipelines described in a YAML based language. Here we have a list of them that you must include in your project and make sure that they are working correctly.

Testing

Taken care of in .github/workflows/python-app.yml. By default pytest is used. Find tests under test/ and test your code religiously. No untested or undocumented code is allowed.

Documentation Building

Taken care of in .github/workflows/pdoc.yml. The workflow will take care of building and publishing project documentation from Python docstrings. You need to use the the numpy docstring format. Find the description of it here. The documentation will be built and published under dlr-mf-das.github.io/general-template where you need to replace general-template with your repository name.

Python Package Publishing

Taken care of in .github/workflows/python-publish.yml. This workflow is executed every time a new release is created. Make sure to update the version number in pyproject.toml before creating a release. Because this number is used to create the Python package archive that is published to MF-DAS pypi. If the package with that version number was previously uploaded to PyPi this workflow will fail.