An opinionated, minimal cookiecutter template for Python packages, and some guidelines for Python packaging.
pip install cookiecutter
git clone https://github.com/Lost4Now/cookiecutter_resilient.git
cookiecutter cookiecutter_resilient/
You should then change the classifiers in {{ package_name }}/setup.py - it is assumed that the project will run on the latest versions of Python 2 and 3, so you should remove any classifiers that do not apply. The full list of PyPI classifiers can be found here.
Fill out the README, and - if necessary - add a license to the project.