Does python have built command for package skeleton creation?

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/23/2012 11:59 PM, alex23 wrote:
> On Sep 21, 10:14 pm, xliiv <tymoteusz.jankow... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, September 21, 2012 1:08:23 PM UTC+2, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>> Python Paste is probably what you are looking for - see
>
>> It's a nice beast but:
>> - it's not built in. Should it be? I think it should.
>
> There needs to be a distinction at some point between Python as
> runtime and development environments. If you assume that there are
> more users of Python code than developers, then cluttering it with
> more developer-only tools is a waste of resources for those end users.
>
> Also: developers are fussy about their environments. One person's vi
> is another person's emacs. We keep various package skeletons in our
> git repository, and that works well for us, so adding Paste to Python
> is just more useless kruft from our perspective.
>
> And: easy_install/pip install paste isn't exactly crippling to type.
>
>> - about readme and manifest.in:
>> "You could add to your template a file called readme.rst"
>> i dont want to add, i want it already added :)
>
> If you'd just did as they asked, you'd already have this issue
> resolved by now.
>
> If you're waiting for the standard library to scratch your itch for
> you, you're going to be waiting for a long, _long_ time.

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