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Question on project setup.

My workflow usually looks like:

mkdir new-project
cd new-project
uv venv --python 3.xx
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install kedro
kedro new --name new-project

Then my directories look like:

new-project/
    .venv/
    new-project/
        ... kedro stuff ...

but really i wanted the <i>current</i> directory to be my kedro project (at the level where .venv is)
Is there a good way to do this?

of course I could just create the venv a directory up, like so:

new-project/
    ... kedro stuff ...
.venv/

but I was things all in the same directory without having to move all the kedro project files one directory up

Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez · Answer

yeah,  kedro new  is sadly famous for creating yet another directory, because it relies on cookiecutter under the hood... long standing discussion  https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro/discussions/4274 one possible solution is to install kedro globally (with  uvx  or  pip-tools  ) and use that to run  kedro new  : uv tool install kedro  # this will be global
uvx kedro new --name new-project  & &  cd new-project
uv venv --python 3.xx
uv pip install kedro  # this will install Kedro only for this venv another possible workaround is to use my  kedro-init  package, that does a very minimal scaffolding but in return works in the current directory  https://github.com/astrojuanlu/kedro-init

Ian Whalen · Answer

I knew I couldn't be the only one! Thanks for the quick response I'll just keep moving things up one directory, no big deal 😁

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