Fabric script that eases the creation of new Django Project

fabfile.py

"""
This fabric script automates the creation of a virtual environment and a Django
project. The result will be virtual environtment with the name of the project.
The folder namer where the project code will be placed is specified in
SOURCE_DIRECTORY_NAME, a static root folder will be created and settings.py
will be updated.
"""
try:
    from fabric.api import env, run, local
    from fabric.context_managers import lcd, prefix
except ImportError, e:
    print 'Python Fabric should be installed to use this script'

import re, sys, os


DIRECTORY_NAME_REGEXP = r'^[a-zA-Z_].[\w_-]+$'
SOURCE_DIRECTORY_NAME = 'src'


PACKAGES_LIST = [
    'Django==1.4',
    'south',
]


def create_virtual_env():
    local('virtualenv --no-site-packages .')


def create_project_directory(name):
    if name is None:
	print 'You should provide project name to use this script'
        sys.exit()
    if not re.match(DIRECTORY_NAME_REGEXP, name):
        print 'Incorrect name, name can contain only numbers, letters, dash ' \
            'and underscore and should start with letter or underscore'
        exit(1)
    else:
        local('mkdir %s' % name)


def install_packages():
    for package in PACKAGES_LIST:
        local('pip install %s' % package)


def create_django_project(name):
    local('mkdir %s' % SOURCE_DIRECTORY_NAME)
    local('mkdir static')
    local('mkdir media')
    local('python ./bin/django-admin.py startproject %s %s' % (name, SOURCE_DIRECTORY_NAME))


def update_settings(name):
    with open('settings.py', 'r') as base_settings:
        content = base_settings.read().replace('%%%project_name%%%', name)
        with open(os.path.join(name, SOURCE_DIRECTORY_NAME, name, 'settings.py'), 'w') as settings:
            settings.write(content)


def start_project(name=None):
    create_project_directory(name)
    with lcd(name):
        create_virtual_env()
        ve_activate_prefix = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), name, 'bin', 'activate')
        print ve_activate_prefix
        with prefix('. %s' % ve_activate_prefix):
            install_packages()
            create_django_project(name)
            update_settings(name)
            manage_py_path = os.path.join(SOURCE_DIRECTORY_NAME, 'manage.py')
            local('python %s collectstatic' % manage_py_path)

settings.py

# Django settings for %%%project_name%%% project.

import os


PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))

DEBUG = False
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

ADMINS = (
    # ('Your Name', '[email protected]'),
)

MANAGERS = ADMINS


# Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
# although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
# On Unix systems, a value of None will cause Django to use the same
# timezone as the operating system.
# If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your
# system time zone.
TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago'

# Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
# http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

SITE_ID = 1

# If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
# to load the internationalization machinery.
USE_I18N = True

# If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
# calendars according to the current locale.
USE_L10N = True

# If you set this to False, Django will not use timezone-aware datetimes.
USE_TZ = True

# Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files.
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/media/"
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, os.pardir, 'media')

# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash.
# Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/", "http://example.com/media/"
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

# Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
# Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
# in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/static/"
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, os.pardir, 'static')

# URL prefix for static files.
# Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

# Additional locations of static files
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
)

# List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
# various locations.
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
#    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
)

# Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
SECRET_KEY = '(6s62fym+%qkk37pe=-utcpo%14a38se9=$w+@!ib4g5=o9sf9'

# List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
#    'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
    # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = '%%%project_name%%%.urls'

# Python dotted path to the WSGI application used by Django's runserver.
WSGI_APPLICATION = '%%%project_name%%%.wsgi.application'

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
)

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
)

# A sample logging configuration. The only tangible logging
# performed by this configuration is to send an email to
# the site admins on every HTTP 500 error when DEBUG=False.
# See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging for
# more details on how to customize your logging configuration.
LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'filters': {
        'require_debug_false': {
            '()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse'
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'mail_admins': {
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
            'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
        }
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'propagate': True,
        },
    }
}


try:
    from setting_local import *
except ImportError, e:
    pass

@StommePoes - fixed, thanks )

Instead of

for package in PACKAGES_LIST:
    local('pip install %s' % package)

you may take a look at pip requirements file: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/requirements.html

@ymirpl as I firstly saw your commend in my blog, I answered it there -> http://ilian.i-n-i.org/fabric-and-django-how-to-automate-new-project-start/#comment-6306