Basic usage

Install cookiecutter

Install _cookiecutter via conda (recommended)

$ conda install cookiecutter -c conda-forge

or

$ pip install cookiecutter

Create Project With Cookiecutter

After installing cookiecutter, use the cpp-cookiecutter:

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/DerThorsten/py_cookiecutter

There you need to specify the variables of the cpp_cookiecutter which are explained in the table below:

Title

Cookiecutter variable	Description	Default
full_name	Author Name	John Doe
email	email of author	john@doe.de
project_name	name of the project	pytools
project_slug	url friendly version of package name	pytools
package_name	package name	pytools
conda_package_name	conda package name	pytools
readthedocs_package_name	readthedocs package name	pytools
github_project_name	name of the project on github	pytools
python_package_name	name of the python package	pytools
github_username	authors github user name	JohnDoe
azure_username	authors user name on microsoft azure	JohnDoe
open_source_license	which license shall be used	MIT LICENCE
summary	a short summary of the project	pytools is a modern C++ Library
description	a short description of the project	pytools is a modern python Library

Install Generated Project with setup.py

Assuming your created a package named pytools the following installs the project using setup.py

cd pytools
python setup.py install