Conditionally creating directories in cookiecutter

I wanted my datasette-plugin cookiecutter template to create empty static and templates directories if the user replied y to the include_static_directory and include_templates_directory prompts.

The solution was to add a hooks/post_gen_project.py script containing the following:

import os
import shutil


include_static_directory = bool("{{ cookiecutter.include_static_directory }}")
include_templates_directory = bool("{{ cookiecutter.include_templates_directory }}")


if include_static_directory:
    os.makedirs(
        os.path.join(
            os.getcwd(),
            "datasette_{{ cookiecutter.underscored }}",
            "static",
        )
    )


if include_templates_directory:
    os.makedirs(
        os.path.join(
            os.getcwd(),
            "datasette_{{ cookiecutter.underscored }}",
            "templates",
        )
    )

Note that these scripts are run through the cookiecutter Jinja template system, so they can use {{ }} Jinja syntax to read cookiecutter inputs.

Created 2021-01-27T15:56:28-08:00 · Edit

Conditionally creating directories in cookiecutter

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