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Kedro new is simply a wrapper around the cookiecutter templating library. The kedro team maintains a ready made template that has everything you need for a kedro project. They also maintain a few kedro starters, which are very similar to the base template.
Unsure what kedro is, Check out yesterdays post on What is Kedro.
pipx #
I reccomend using pipx when running kedro new. pipx is designed for system
level cli tools so that you do not need to maintain a virtual environment or
worry about version conflicts, pipx manages the environment for you.
The kedro team does not reccomend pipx in their docs as they already feel
like there is a bit of a tool overload for folks that may be less familiar with
pipx kedro new
I like using pipx as it gives you better control over using a specific
version or always the latest version, unlike when you run what you have on your
system depends on when you last installed or upgraded.
Kedro New #
The kedro team also has a set of starters, by passing in --starter you can
start with a different template. Here is an example with the kedro
spaceflights starter.
pipx run kedro new --starter spaceflights ============= Please enter a human readable name for your new project. Spaces and punctuation are allowed. [New Kedro Project]: Spaceflights Complete Repository Name: ================ Please enter a directory name for your new project repository. Alphanumeric characters, hyphens and underscores are allowed. Lowercase is recommended. [spaceflights-complete]: Python Package Name: ==================== Please enter a valid Python package name for your project package. Alphanumeric characters and underscores are allowed. Lowercase is recommended. Package name must start with a letter or underscore. [spaceflights_complete]: Change directory to the project generated in /home/u_walkews/git/spaceflights-complete A best-practice setup includes initialising git and creating a virtual environment before running ``kedro install`` to install project-specific dependencies. Refer to the Kedro documentation: https://kedro.readthedocs.io/
Other versions of kedro with pipx
pipx not only ensures that you run the latest version, it can also run a
very specific version.
pipx run --spec kedro==0.16.6 kedro new
The next post in this series will help you create your virtual environment for your new kedro project.