Hatch - a great python project management tool

Hatch is a python packaging tool. Useful for building python projects. Out of the box it supports testing, building, managing dependencies, and linting/formatting support.

https://wwww.hatch.pypa.io/latest.intro

New Project

hatch new “Hatch Demo”

Adding to Existing Project

hatch new –init

Build a project

hatch build

Test a project with coverage

hatch test –cover

Running static analysis

hatch fmt

Open a shell in the project to run scripts

hatch shell

Create a python virtual env

python3 -m venv /tmp/hatch_demo/

Switching to virtual environment

source /tmp/hatch_demo/bin/activate

Open VScode in a hatch virtual environment

source /tmp/hatch_demo/bin/activate code .

Prune hatch environments - useful for clearing caches

hatch evn prune

List hatch evn

hatch env show

Running a specific cript in the project

[project.scripts] script_name = “packagename.package2.script_name:method_name”