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Cookiecutter

Another tool we find useful is Cookiecutter. In a nutshell, this is a templating engine for projects. There are two main scenarios where Cookiecutter can be useful.

First, if you are usually working on multiple projects of a similar structure or purpose, you may save some time and emotion by creating a single template of the project. That includes the folder structure, its name, the default files or templates to include, Makefiles (https://krzysztofzuraw.com/blog/2016/makefiles-in-python-projects.html), proper gitignore settings, and anything else you want. Specific variables can be injected into any text-based files, depending on your selection and configurations. As an illustration, in our practice, we adopted our own templates ...