Modern Python Projects Transcripts
Chapter: Cookiecutter templates
Lecture: What is cookiecutter?
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cookie cutter is not a tool to cut cookies. We are still talking about programming.
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Cookie cutter is a Python CLI tool that generates a scaffolding for a Python project.
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From a template, this scaffolding will contain some files to help you start working on your project faster. For example,
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it might install and configure pytest the most popular testing library. Or if it's a Web application,
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it might add the bootstrap library, so your website will look much nicer out of the
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box. What features it adds depends on which template you use, so lets see an example.