of scaffold creating an existing directory where the package
created should not be named after the base folder.
For example if I am in I run pcreate in ~/code/trypyramid.com and
would like to create package called tpc this is currently
impossible. This solves the issues by allowing me to specify
the package name on the command line

pyramid/scripts/pcreate.py

@@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ class PCreateCommand(object):
                      action='store_true',
                      help=("A backwards compatibility alias for -l/--list.  "
                            "List all available scaffold names."))
    parser.add_option('--package-name',
                      dest='package_name',
                      action='store',
                      type='string',
                      help='Package name to use. Named provided is assumed to '
                           'be a valid python package name and will not be '
                           'validated. (By default package name is derived '
                           'from output_directory base folder name)')
    parser.add_option('--simulate',
                      dest='simulate',
                      action='store_true',
@@ -99,9 +107,13 @@ def output_path(self):
    def project_vars(self):
        output_dir = self.output_path
        project_name = os.path.basename(os.path.split(output_dir)[1])
        pkg_name = _bad_chars_re.sub(
            '', project_name.lower().replace('-', '_'))
        safe_name = pkg_resources.safe_name(project_name)
        if self.options.package_name is None:
            pkg_name = _bad_chars_re.sub(
                '', project_name.lower().replace('-', '_'))
            safe_name = pkg_resources.safe_name(project_name)
        else:
            pkg_name = self.options.package_name
            safe_name = pkg_name
        egg_name = pkg_resources.to_filename(safe_name)

        # get pyramid package version

pyramid/tests/test_scripts/test_pcreate.py

@@ -80,6 +80,27 @@ def test_known_scaffold_single_rendered(self):
            {'project': 'Distro', 'egg': 'Distro', 'package': 'distro',
             'pyramid_version': '0.1', 'pyramid_docs_branch':'0.1-branch'})

    def test_scaffold_with_package_name(self):
        import os
        cmd = self._makeOne('-s', 'dummy', '--package-name', 'dummy_package',
                            'Distro')
        scaffold = DummyScaffold('dummy')
        cmd.scaffolds = [scaffold]
        cmd.pyramid_dist = DummyDist("0.1")
        result = cmd.run()

        self.assertEqual(result, 0)
        self.assertEqual(
            scaffold.output_dir,
            os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'Distro'))
            )
        self.assertEqual(
            scaffold.vars,
            {'project': 'Distro', 'egg': 'dummy_package',
             'package': 'dummy_package', 'pyramid_version': '0.1',
             'pyramid_docs_branch':'0.1-branch'})


    def test_scaffold_with_hyphen_in_project_name(self):
        import os
        cmd = self._makeOne('-s', 'dummy', 'Distro-')