Beget
Beget is a very simple tool to create a default django project. It basically does little more than django-admin.py startproject projectname
with the only differences being that it creates the project in a python distribution layout complete with setup.py for ease of installation and creates media and static directories.
The default settings.py is tailored to the author's preferences i.e. TIME_ZONE is set to 'Europe/London'.
Usage
To use beget:
> beget example_project
This will create the following directories:
> tree example_project example_project ├── example_project │  ├── __init__.py │  ├── media │  ├── settings.py │  ├── static │  │  ├── css │  │  ├── images │  │  └── js │  ├── templates │  └── urls.py └── setup.py
beget has only one option (excluding --help
of course):
> beget -h Usage: beget [options] projectname Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -k, --like-krak3n Create config/common.py instead of settings.py
The -k
or --like-krak3n
option replaces settings.py with config/common.py as is the way of the krak3n:
> beget --like-krak3n example_project && tree example_project example_project ├── example_project │  ├── config │  │  ├── common.py │  │  └── __init__.py │  ├── __init__.py │  ├── media │  ├── static │  │  ├── css │  │  ├── images │  │  └── js │  ├── templates │  └── urls.py └── setup.py