A shell function to quickly initialize empty python packages.

.bashrc

# Creates directories and empty __init__.py files for the given python package in the current directory.
# Usage:
#   pypkg a.python.package.name
pypkg () {
    local pkgpath="$(echo $1 | sed 's:\.: :g')"
    local fspath="."
    for el in $pkgpath; do
        fspath="${fspath}/${el}"
        (mkdir "$fspath" && touch "${fspath}/__init__.py") &>/dev/null
    done
}