Github action template for Python based projects

Five traits that almost all the GitHub Action workflows in my Python projects share are:

• If a new workflow is triggered while the previous one is running, the first one will get canceled.
• The CI is triggered every day at UTC 1.
• Tests and the lint-checkers are run on Ubuntu and MacOS against multiple Python versions.
• Pip dependencies are cached.
• Dependencies, including the Actions dependencies are automatically updated via Dependabot.

I use pip-tools for managing dependencies in applications and setuptools setup.py combo for managing dependencies in libraries. Here's an annotated version of the template action syntax:

The dependabot config looks as follows:

Further reading

• An active version of the above workflow