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A few years ago, I used Cookiecutter to show how to get from import blah to pip install blah. This sounds simple, but it isn’t. A Python script can live almost anywhere, but a formal package needs the right structure to be built into a wheel. It needs dependency metadata, versions, releases, a licence, and some way to test that it still works. Cookiecutter gave us a standard template. Instead of remembering every file and setting and creating them manually, we answered a few questions and started with a working package. I gave a talk about that workflow in 2022. ...