Human readable prompts
You can add human-readable prompts that will be shown to the user for each variable using the __prompts__
key.
For multiple choices questions you can also provide labels for each option.
See the following cookiecutter config as example:
{
"package_name": "my-package",
"module_name": "{{ cookiecutter.package_name.replace('-', '_') }}",
"package_name_stylized": "{{ cookiecutter.module_name.replace('_', ' ').capitalize() }}",
"short_description": "A nice python package",
"github_username": "your-org-or-username",
"full_name": "Firstname Lastname",
"email": "email@example.com",
"init_git": true,
"linting": ["ruff", "flake8", "none"],
"__prompts__": {
"package_name": "Select your package name",
"module_name": "Select your module name",
"package_name_stylized": "Stylized package name",
"short_description": "Short description",
"github_username": "GitHub username or organization",
"full_name": "Author full name",
"email": "Author email",
"command_line_interface": "Add CLI",
"init_git": "Initialize a git repository",
"linting": {
"__prompt__": "Which linting tool do you want to use?",
"ruff": "Ruff",
"flake8": "Flake8",
"none": "No linting tool"
}
}
}