fablib

fablib is a helper library for Fabric to setup a sandboxed Python environment (virtualenv) for your project without the overhead of having to use Buildout.

Features

• Create virtualenv and install packages (including dependencies)
• Automatically include PyWin32 from global site-packages
• Use PyPM (instead of pip) if available -- saves a lot of time. Requires ActivePython.
• Supports Python 3.

Usage

1. Setup:

   $ cd /to/my/project
   $ git submodule add git://github.com/srid/fablib.git fablib
   $ cat > fabfile.py
   import sys
   import os.path as P
   from fabric.api import *
   # Import github.com/srid/fablib
   sys.path.append(P.abspath(
       P.join(P.dirname(__file__), 'fablib')))
   import venv
   
   clean = venv.clean
   init = venv.init
   

2. Install Fabric, virtualenv and use:

   $ fab -l
   $ fab clean
   $ fab init    # `fab init:pyver=3.1` for Py3k!
   

3. No more buildout!

   $ bin/python
   

See the applib project for a real-world example.