cookiecutter: conditionals and sets

Very often there is overlap between projects and you don't want to handle the boilerplate manually. In these cases cookiecutter can be an amazing tool that automates a lot of repetition away.

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Notes

The contents of the cookiecutter.json file;

{
  "project": "project",
  "author": "author",
  "project_slug": "{{cookiecutter.project.lower().replace(' ', '_')}}",
  "license": ["MIT", "BSD"]
}

The contents of the readme.md file;

# readme of {{cookiecutter.project}}

This package was made by {{cookiecutter.author}}.

{%- if cookiecutter.license == "MIT" -%}

This is an MIT license. 

{%- elif cookiecutter.license == "BSD" -%}

This is a BSD license. 

{% endif %}

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