PHphilipn·Sep 4, 2011
Take a look at https://github.com/dziegler/django-create-project & maybe collaborate?
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django-create-project
Python2009–2011
dziegler / django-create-project
django-create-project
A replacement for django-admin.py startproject.
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A replacement for django-admin.py startproject.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 2009 | 2009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2009 | 2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2009 | 2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2009 | 2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2010 | 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2010 | 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2010 | 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2010 | 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2010 | 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2010 | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2010 | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2010 | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2010 | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2010 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2010 | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2011 | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2011 | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2011 | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2011 | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2011 | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2011 | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2011 | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2011 | 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesI found myself doing several of these things over and over when creating a new Django project, so I made a script that wraps the django-admin.py startproject command. Some of these tips I don't quite understand, like creating a custom authentication backend (I've only had to do this once), and creating global template context processor and middleware files. I prefer to keep those bundled individually with the app that uses it. Also, not all of my apps use forms, so why would I make a forms.py for each app?
My package is on github here: http://github.com/dziegler/django-create-project/tree/master
There's not much documentation because I wasn't really expecting anyone but myself to use it, but basically once it's installed, it'll install a binary file in your path. So instead of
django-admin.py startproject project_name
you would do
cr
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eate_project project_name
It'll auto-create your wsgi handler, an apps, templates, static/css, static/js, static/images directories, create a localsettings file, and update your settings. It also automatically installs some common django apps I like to use, like django-command-extensions, django-debug-toolbar, django-css, and clevercss. Like I said, I wasn't really planning on other people finding this valuable and using it, so some of these options are customized to my preferences and you'd probably have to hack it a little bit, but maybe someone here will find it helpful.
There's also http://bitbucket.org/neithere/django-harness/src/ which I think might do some similar things, but I found out about it after I already rolled my own thing which works pretty well for me.