cookiecutter
Environment variable in .cookiecutterrc file evaluation
- Cookiecutter version: 1.5.1
- Python version: 3.6
- Operating System: Windows
Hey there! First of all thank you for this tool, I've always struggled to find something flexible and customizable as powerfull like this! :)
As title goes, I'd like to use the .cookiecutterrc with couple of custom aliases. In these aliases I use custom paths with some environment variables like this:
abbreviations:
mt:%MYVAR%/path/to/my_template
Running $ Cookiecutter mt this is the error Cc spits:
A valid repository for "%MYVAR%/path/to/my_template" could not be found in the following locations: %MYVAR%/path/to/my_template C:\Users\Gruber\.cookiecutters/%MYVAR%/path/to/my_template
What can I do to make this work? Is it possible to use the env variables in aliases paths?
Thank you!
PS. BTW why the doube 'rr' in the config file name (.cookiecutterrc)? Got me quite a headache to get it read by Cc, eventually I noticed I was missing an r! :P )
.cookiecutterrc
Visa vi why two rs. rc is short for run-command and is a historical suffix for configuration files inherited from shells like bash. As the configs were literally just running commands when the shell started up. cookiecutterrc is just cookiecutter + the rc convention.
