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A skeleton builder tools are tools that takes a directory skeleton, copies over its directory structure to a target folder and uses a template engine to dynamically generate the files.

In alphabetical order:

  • Cookiecutter

    • uses Jinja2 template engine.
    • config file can be in either json and yaml formats.
    • Tested for use with Python 3.3, 2.7, 2.6, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

    • Extremely popular, with over 30 community contributed templates available for Python, Django, Flask, JavaScript, Ruby, C, Open Stack, and HTML.

  • django-admin.py startproject

    • (limited to Django framework)

  • Echafaudage

    • use tempita template engine

    • config file is in json format
    • specific feature : standalone file executable directly with python -c "$(curl ...)"

  • mr.bob

    • use Jinja2 template engine
    • config file is in ini format

    • specific feature : pre, post hooks

  • pcreate (limited to Pyramid framework)

  • Paste Script

Limited to package creation