Simon Willison’s Weblog

27th January 2021

TIL Conditionally creating directories in cookiecutter — I wanted my [datasette-plugin](https://github.com/simonw/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.

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Posted 27th January 2021 at 11:56 pm

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