Introduction

Requisites

autopilot requires Python >= 3.5

Installation

pip install autopilot

Basic usage

Autopilot provides 2 commands, new and release. You can call them from the command line:

$ ap new
$ ap release

ap new command creates a new project. You can pass optionally the new project name:

$ ap new cool-project

ap release creates a new release for a project. If you want to upload it to a PyPI server, you need to create a configuration file to tell autopilot which are your username and password. See next section for more info.

Configuration

We choose the yaml format for the configuration. This is the default configuration file:

author:
  name: ''          # Take it from git config if empty
  email: ''         # Take it from git config if empty

new_project:
  default_dir: ''   # Uses current working directory
  license: gplv2
  commit: true      # Do the initial commit?

editor: ''          # Use $EDITOR, fallback to vim

release:
  upload: PyPI
  push: true

pypi_servers:
  PyPI:
    user: ''
    passeval: ''    # Executable command
    url: 'https://pypi.python.org/pypi'
  PyPI Test:
    user: ''
    passeval: ''    # Executable command
    url: 'https://testpypi.python.org/pypi'

For some options, if they are empty, autopilot will try to fill the data with information from your system, see comments in the default configuration file.

It is possible to override the default configuration. To do it, create a file at XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autopilot/config.yml (or ~/.config/autopilot/config.yml if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined). You can override just some of the options. For every option, the logic is to look for the option in the user config file, if it’s not there, search in autopilot default configuration, and if the option has an empty value, try to get the value from the system.

An example of a custom configuration file:

new_project:
  license: mit

editor: vim -R

release:
  upload: nope
  push: false

pypi_servers:

  pypi:
    user: my_pypi_user
    passeval: pass pypi

  local devpi:
    user: devpi_user
    passeval: pass devpi_local
    url: 'http://localhost:8080'

As you see, is possible to add more servers to pypi_servers. In this example, a new PyPI server (local devpi) would be added to the list of options on the UI.