Cookiecutter fails to install the project after a cookiecutter template was cloned

In latest Visual studio 2017I go to File --> New -->–> From Cookiecutter. Then I select an arbitrary template and click Run or Next. I see in the output window that the repository is cloned, but then I get an error, e.g.

----- Cloning template 'audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage' -----
Cloning into 'cookiecutter-pypackage'...
----- Successfully cloned template 'audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage' to 'C:\Users\pavol\.cookiecutters\cookiecutter-pypackage' -----
----- Installing cookiecutter -----
C:\tools\Anaconda3\python.exe returned an exit code of 1.
----- Failed to install cookiecutter -----

[jancura]

Indeed, my Anaconda installation made its Python the default (I used Chocolatey, which by default registers anaconda python as default python3). When I uninstalled Anaconda and installed with Chocolatey again but specifying not to register the default python, the cookiecutter was successfully installed and everything seems to work now.

Thanks for your help.

[zooba]

That should be easy to check - if you go to the folder @huguesv mentioned above and find bin\python.exe then it’s been created from Anaconda. We shouldn’t do this, since they do some things “differently” that may be problematic.

I believe we actually look for the latest version of Python available, so if you selected the option in the Anaconda installer to make it the default it’s now claiming to be a regular Python install and there’s nothing we can do about it. As a workaround, you should be able to run these commands from a command prompt:

<path to Python 3.6> -m venv "%localappdata%\Microsoft\CookiecutterTools\env"
"%localappdata%\Microsoft\CookiecutterTools\env\Scripts\pip" install cookiecutter<1.5

This is essentially what our tool should be doing. Unfortunately, if Anaconda has overwritten the CPython registry keys, we don’t have any way to do it automatically.