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:

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import os
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import shutil
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include_static_directory = bool("{{ cookiecutter.include_static_directory }}")
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include_templates_directory = bool("{{ cookiecutter.include_templates_directory }}")
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if include_static_directory:
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    os.makedirs(
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        os.path.join(
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            os.getcwd(),
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            "datasette_{{ cookiecutter.underscored }}",
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            "static",
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        )
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    )
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if include_templates_directory:
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    os.makedirs(
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        os.path.join(
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            os.getcwd(),
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            "datasette_{{ cookiecutter.underscored }}",
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            "templates",
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        )
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    )

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