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A command-line utility that creates projects from project templates, e.g. creating a Python package project from a Python package project template.

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A command-line utility that creates projects from project templates, e.g. creating a Python package project from a Python package project template.

Features

Did someone say features? Cookiecutter’s got more features than you can shake a stick at!

  • Works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and PyPy.

  • Simple command line usage:

    # Create project from the cookiecutter-pypackage.git repo template
    # You'll be prompted to enter values.
    # Then it'll create your Python package based on those values.
    $ cookiecutter https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.git
  • Can also use it at the command line with a local template:

    # Create project from the local cookiecutter-pypackage/ template
    $ cookiecutter cookiecutter-pypackage/
  • Or use it from Python:

    from cookiecutter.main import cookiecutter
    
    # Create project from the cookiecutter-pypackage/ template
    cookiecutter('cookiecutter-pypackage/')
    
    # Create project from the cookiecutter-pypackage.git repo template
    cookiecutter('https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.git')
  • Directory names and filenames can be templated. For example:

    {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}.py
  • Supports unlimited levels of directory nesting.

  • All templating is done with Jinja2.

  • Project templates can be in any programming language or markup format: Python, JavaScript, Ruby, CoffeeScript, RST, Markdown, CSS, HTML, you name it. You can use multiple languages in the same project template.

  • Simply define your template variables in a cookiecutter.json file. For example:

    {
        "full_name": "Audrey Roy",
        "email": "audreyr@gmail.com",
        "project_name": "A Lot of Effort",
        "repo_name": "alotofeffort",
        "project_short_description": "Deploy static HTML sites to S3 with the simple 'alotofeffort' command.",
        "release_date": "2013-07-10",
        "year": "2013",
        "version": "0.1.1"
    }
  • If generating a project from a git repo template, you are prompted for input:

    • Prompts are the keys in cookiecutter.json.

    • Default responses are the values in cookiecutter.json.

    • Prompts are shown in order (thanks to those handy OrderedDicts!)

Available Templates

Here is a list of the working Cookiecutter project templates that exist:

Make your own, then submit a pull request adding yours to this list!

Similar projects

  • Paste has a create option that creates a skeleton project.

  • Diecutter: an API service that will give you back a configuration file from a template and variables.

  • Django’s startproject and startapp commands can take in a –template option.

  • python-packager: Creates Python packages from its own template, with configurable options.

  • Yeoman has a Rails-inspired generator system that provides scaffolding for apps.

History

0.6.0 (2013-08-08)

  • Config is now in a single cookiecutter.json instead of in json/.

  • When you create a project from a git repo template, Cookiecutter prompts you to enter custom values for the fields defined in cookiecutter.json.

0.5 (2013-07-28)

  • Friendlier, more simplified command line usage:

    # Create project from the cookiecutter-pypackage/ template
    $ cookiecutter cookiecutter-pypackage/
    
    # Create project from the cookiecutter-pypackage.git repo template
    $ cookiecutter https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.git
  • Can now use Cookiecutter from Python as a package:

    from cookiecutter.main import cookiecutter
    
    # Create project from the cookiecutter-pypackage/ template
    cookiecutter('cookiecutter-pypackage/')
    
    # Create project from the cookiecutter-pypackage.git repo template
    cookiecutter('https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.git')
  • Internal refactor to remove any code that changes the working directory.

0.4 (2013-07-22)

  • Only takes in one argument now: the input directory. The output directory is generated by rendering the name of the input directory.

  • Output directory cannot be the same as input directory.

0.3 (2013-07-17)

  • Takes in command line args for the input and output directories.

0.2.1 (2013-07-17)

  • Minor cleanup.

0.2 (2013-07-17)

Bumped to “Development Status :: 3 - Alpha”.

  • Works with any type of text file.

  • Directory names and filenames can be templated.

0.1.0 (2013-07-11)

  • First release on PyPI.

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