Installing

Instructions for installing the required programs to use this template and create a new project from it.

There are a few programs that are required to use this template to create a project:

• uv: A tool for managing Python environments and running commands.
• Python: Required by Copier, the template tool.
• Copier: A template tool for making new projects in a standardised and structured way.

You can use uv to install these required programs, so install uv first. After you’ve installed uv, you can easily install all the other programs (like Python) using:

Terminal

uv tool install --with jinja2-time copier

To do the next steps, you also need to install:

• Git: For version control and setting up Git to track the newly created project.
• gh cli: For managing GitHub repositories and settings from the command line. There are some post-creation steps we’ve included that use gh to simplify setting up a GitHub repository for the project.