Support for renaming the cookiecutter dict

Description:

Is there any support for renaming the cookiecutter object to something shorter? I’m finding cookiecutter to be one of those words that are hard to type, and would like to use something like cc in Jinja templates instead

[Granitosaurus]

@wadkar sorry I can’t really follow you. How do you even make out such a simple issue as additional alias so complicated. How could anyone have trouble reading cc instead of cookiecutter.
You can close this issue and my PR for all I care, I raised my proposal and clearly there’s nothing of value to discuss here.

For those who want the alias I’m maintaining a fork and pypi repo:

https://github.com/Granitosaurus/cookiecutter-cc https://pypi.org/project/cookiecutter-cc/

bye.

[wadkar]

Personally, I am not worried about typing cookiecutter because one reads a variable an order of magnitude more than one writes. Perhaps explicit is better than implicit can be considered useful here?

Not to disregard any usability concerns, I do like the third option suggested earlier, i.e. {{foo}}.{{bar}} though I am not sure how it can be achieved without surprising the user too much.

As it stands, I don’t mind the status-quo and use the cookiecutter variable in jinja2 template. As for providing a shorter alias or renaming, wouldn’t something like {%- cc = cookiecutter -%} at the beginning of template work for those who want shorter/cryptic name?

Finally, please understand this issue is the hardest problem in CS/SE : Naming Things! I would be happy to hear what other users/developers have to say about it.