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Prompt arguments

When running the command ccp a prompt will start which enables you to configure your repository. The prompt values and their explanation are as follows:


author

Your full name.

author_email

Your email address associated with your github account.

author_username

Your github handle, i.e. <handle> in https://github.com/<handle>.

project_name

Your project name. Should be equal to the name of your repository and it should only contain alphanumeric characters and -'s.

package_name

The package name, will default to the project_name with all -'s replaced with _. This will be how you import your code later, e.g.

from <package_nem> import foo

Note: You can set package_name to "src" to place the Python module inside a src directory.

project_description

A short description of your project.

git_repo

"y" or "n". Whether you want to create a local git repo for the project.

git_server

In case you want to use another git service than github, you can specify it here. The default is github.com.

mkdocs

"y" or "n". Adds MkDocs documentation to your project. This includes automatically parsing your docstrings and adding them to the documentation. Documentation will be deployed to the gh-pages branch.