Better project template for Google App Engine
I've been playing around with
Google App Engine quite a bit lately. Whenever I'd create a new project, I'd start by copying and pasting a folder called "new_project_template" which is included in the software developers kit. The template contains a bare-minimum hello world script. As I made more and more apps, I realized that I always added the same things to this folder before writing the actual "guts" of the code.
I always had to fix the indents, add some basic
import statements, and include my favorite web scraping library,
Beautiful Soup. So I created a template of my own and named it "better_project_template" (creative? I know). The folder has the Beautiful Soup module, base.html and index.html templates, as well as some useful
shortcuts added to the main.py file. Anyone interested can
download this folder here for their own use.
Alan
13 March 2009