Embedding PyScaffoldΒΆ
PyScaffold is expected to be used from terminal, via putup
command line
application. It is, however, possible to write an external script or program
that embeds PyScaffold and use it to perform some custom actions.
The public Python API is exposed by the pyscaffold.api
module, which
contains the main function create_project
.
The following example illustrates a typical embedded usage of PyScaffold:
import logging
from pyscaffold.api import create_project
from pyscaffold.extenstions.tox import Tox
from pyscaffold.extenstions.travis import Travis
from pyscaffold.extenstions.namespace import Namespace
from pyscaffold.log import DEFAULT_LOGGER as LOGGER_NAME
logging.getLogger(LOGGER_NAME).setLevel(logging.INFO)
create_project(project="my-proj-name", author="Your Name",
namespace="some.namespace", license="mit",
extensions=[Tox('tox'),
Travis('travis'),
Namespace('namespace')])
Note that no built-in extension (e.g. tox, travis and namespace support) is
activated by default. The extensions
option should be manually populated
when convenient.
PyScaffold uses the logging infrastructure from Python standard library, and
emits notifications during its execution. Therefore, it is possible to control
which messages are logged by properly setting the log level (internally, most
of the messages are produced under the INFO
level). By default, a
StreamHandler
is attached to the logger, however it is
possible to replace it with a custom handler using
logging.Logger.removeHandler
and logging.Logger.addHandler
. The
logger object is available under the logger
variable of
the pyscaffold.log
module. The default handler is available under the
handler
property of the
logger
object.