Injecting Extra Context¶
You can specify an extra_context dictionary that will override values from cookiecutter.json or .cookiecutterrc:
cookiecutter('cookiecutter-pypackage/',
extra_context={'project_name': 'TheGreatest'})
You will also need to add these keys to the cookiecutter.json or .cookiecutterrc.
Example: Injecting a Timestamp¶
If you have cookiecutter.json
that has the following keys:
{
"timestamp": "{{ cookiecutter.timestamp }}"
}
This Python script will dynamically inject a timestamp value as the project is generated:
from cookiecutter.main import cookiecutter
from datetime import datetime
cookiecutter(
'cookiecutter-django',
extra_context={'timestamp': datetime.utcnow().isoformat()}
)
How this works:
The script uses datetime to get the current UTC time in ISO format.
To generate the project, cookiecutter() is called, passing the timestamp in as context via the extra_context dict.