I read this article and it seems to describe exactly what I need : https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.2/advanced/injecting_context.html However, it mentions a Python script and I don't know where to place it. My goal is to have it read by default when running cookiecutter <template>. My feeling is that, the article idea is to make a fully custom script to run Cookiecutter from python. I think it defeats the purpose of having a nice and simple tool easily run from the terminal. It also removes the use case of running it directly on my repository : cookiecutter https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage Some context : I am making a custom fork of https://github.com/audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage I really like the original project, however the setup file cookiecutter.json contains hardcoded values concerning the author. I want to replace it with : { "full_name" : "{{cookiecutter.full_name}}", "email" : "{{cookiecutter.email}}", ... } With the associated Python code: import os from cookiecutter.main import cookiecutter cookiecutter( 'cookiecutter-pypackage', extra_context={ full_name = os.popen('git config --get user.name' ).read().strip(), email = os.popen('git config --get user.email').read().strip(), } ) This way I can share my template without having my (or the author's) name hanging around in whatever stranger's project. But I (and most others) will still have nice default values when running it. Any idea how to achieve that so it still runs with cookiecutter native command? I thought about using hooks (https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.2/advanced/hooks.html) but I don't think they can handle my usecase. Thanks, Aurel Continue reading...
