A small script to do some initialization for your django app.

djano_extra_init.py

""" To be executed from within your django application for extra initialization """

import os  

def touch_init(directory_name, alt="__init__.py"):
    target = os.path.join(directory_name, alt)
    with open(target, "a+") as f:
        print("touching file: {}".format(target))
        f.close()

def check_and_add_directory(app_path, directory_name):
    """ 
        arguments:      (String app_path, String directory_name)

        functionality:  check to see if that directory exists in the app and if it
                        doesn't then add it .

        return type:    String to the directory path
    """
    target_path = os.path.join(app_path, directory_name)
    if not os.path.exists(target_path):
        print("creating directory: {}".format(target_path))
        os.makedirs(target_path)
    return target_path


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    base_dir, app_name = os.path.split(app_path) 

    # static resources folder(s)
    static = os.path.join('static', app_name)
    static_folders = [static, os.path.join(static, 'css'), os.path.join(static, 'js'), os.path.join(static, 'img'), os.path.join(static, 'doc'), os.path.join(static, 'plugins')]
    for folder in static_folders:
        check_and_add_directory(app_path, folder)

    # templates
    templates = os.path.join('templates', app_name)
    check_and_add_directory(app_path, templates)

    # signals
    touch_init(check_and_add_directory(app_path, "signals"))

    # models
    touch_init(check_and_add_directory(app_path, "models"))

    # templatetags
    touch_init(check_and_add_directory(app_path, 'templatetags'))

    # utils
    touch_init(check_and_add_directory(app_path, "utils"))    

    # middleware
    touch_init(check_and_add_directory(app_path, "middleware"))

    # serializers
    touch_init(check_and_add_directory(app_path, "serializers"))

    # urls
    touch_init(app_path, alt="urls.py")
    
    print("done.")