Quick python script for setting up a new barebones flask workspace

__init__.py

from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

config.py

# Credit goes to: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-structure-large-flask-applications

# Statement for enabling the development environment
DEBUG = True

# Define the application directory
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))  


# SQLite database for testing purposes
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'sqlite:///' + os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'app.db')
DATABASE_CONNECT_OPTIONS = {}

# Application threads. A common general assumption is
# using 2 per available processor cores - to handle
# incoming requests using one and performing background
# operations using the other.
THREADS_PER_PAGE = 2

# Enable protection agains *Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)*
CSRF_ENABLED     = True

# Use a secure, unique and absolutely secret key for
# signing the data. 
CSRF_SESSION_KEY = "secret"

# Secret key for signing cookies
SECRET_KEY = "secret"

flaskify.py

#!/usr/bin/python
from subprocess import call
from urllib2 import urlopen as get
import os, errno

def cmd(string):
    call(string, shell=True)

def install(package):
    if isinstance(package, basestring):
        package = [package]
    for p in package:
        cmd("./env/bin/pip install %s" % p)
        
def download(url, dir=''):
    downloaded = 0
    file_name = url.split('/')[-1]
    
    if os.path.isfile(dir + file_name):
        print file_name + " exists, skipping download"
        return
    
    request = get(url)

    file = open(dir + file_name, 'wb')

    while True:
        buffer = request.read(4096)
        if not buffer:
            break
        
        downloaded += len(buffer)
        file.write(buffer)
        print '\r%d bytes of %s downloaded' % (downloaded, file_name),
    print ' Done!'

def mkdir(dir):
    try:
        os.makedirs(dir)
    except OSError as e:
        if e.errno == errno.EEXIST:
            print "%s exsits, skipping creation" % dir
        else:
            raise    
    
# Begin installation
cmd("virtualenv env")

install(["flask",
         "flask-login",
         "flask-openid",
         "flask-mail",
         "sqlalchemy",
         "flask-sqlalchemy",
         "sqlalchemy-migrate",
         "flask-wtf",
         "flask-bootstrap",
         "flask-admin",
         "flask-classy"])
         
mkdir("app")
mkdir("app/templates")
mkdir("app/static")

download("https://gist.github.com/zephraph/15c32a3335a8be21de05/raw/config.py")
download("https://gist.github.com/zephraph/15c32a3335a8be21de05/raw/run.py")
download("https://gist.github.com/zephraph/15c32a3335a8be21de05/raw/__init__.py", 'app/')

run.py

#!env/bin/python
# Start flask in debug mode

from app import app
app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080, debug=True)