Hertzoggie

Hertzoggie is a collection of cookiecutter templates, particularly for Python projects. These templates are quite opinionated, and are tailored to my specific likes and needs (but others may find they like the structure). In particular:

• They follow a specific folder structure.
• Poetry is used for dependency management.
• Ruff and Pyright are used for linting and type checking, respectively. Moreover, the generated pyproject.toml contains settings for these tools that I tend to use on all of my Python projects.

Usage

First, install cookiecutter:

pip install cookiecutter

Then, use cookiecutter to generate a new project using a Hertzoggie template:

cookiecutter https://github.com/dennis-barrett/hertzoggie.git --directory="template-name"

(Here template-name is one of the template types described in the next section.) After following the prompts, the project will be generated in the current directory.

Templates

There are currently two templates:

• py-pkg: This is a basic Python package template. It includes a pyproject.toml file, a poetry.lock file, and a README.md file, and a very light folder structure.
• py-ds: This is a Python package template for data science projects specifically. In addition to the features of the py-pkg template, it has a more developed folder structure according to how my data science projects are typically organised.

Development

To work on the Hertzoggie templates themselves there is a pyproject.toml file intended for use with Poetry. First, initialise the Poetry virtual environment from within the Hertzoggie root directory:

poetry shell

Then install the dependencies; in particular this will install cookiecutter into the virtual environment:

poetry install

The cookiecutter installed in the virtual environment can then be used as described in the Usage section of this document.