Hook script failed: pre_gen_project hook script didn't exit successfully

[phoeniXharsh]

I've installed cookiecutter-data-science in my global environment and tried running ccds command but it failed abruptly. Can't able to debug it. The error which I'm getting is below:

ERROR: Stopping generation because pre_gen_project hook script didn't exit successfully
Hook script failed (exit status: 1)

The python version which I'm using is 3.9.0 and cookiecutter version is 2.6.0

I'm attaching the full set of commands below

PS C:\Users\HarshVardhan> cookiecutter --version
Cookiecutter 2.6.0 from c:\users\harshvardhan\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages (Python 3.9.0 (tags/v3.9.0:9cf6752, Oct  5 2020, 15:34:40) [MSC v.1927 64 bit (AMD64)])
PS C:\Users\HarshVardhan> python --version
Python 3.9.0
PS C:\Users\HarshVardhan> ccds
You've downloaded C:\Users\HarshVardhan\.cookiecutters\cookiecutter-data-science before. Is it okay to delete and re-download it? [y/n] (y): y
project_name (project_name): demo
repo_name (demo): demo
module_name (demo): demo
author_name (Your name (or your organization/company/team)): demo
description (A short description of the project.): demo
python_version_number (3.10): 3.9.0
Select dataset_storage
    1 - none
    2 - azure
    3 - s3
    4 - gcs
    Choose from [1/2/3/4] (1):
Select environment_manager
    1 - virtualenv
    2 - conda
    3 - pipenv
    4 - none
    Choose from [1/2/3/4] (1):
Select dependency_file
    1 - requirements.txt
    2 - environment.yml
    3 - Pipfile
    Choose from [1/2/3] (1):
Select pydata_packages
    1 - none
    2 - basic
    Choose from [1/2] (1):
Select open_source_license
    1 - No license file
    2 - MIT
    3 - BSD-3-Clause
    Choose from [1/2/3] (1):
Select docs
    1 - mkdocs
    2 - none
    Choose from [1/2] (1):
Select include_code_scaffold
    1 - Yes
    2 - No
    Choose from [1/2] (1):
ERROR: Stopping generation because pre_gen_project hook script didn't exit successfully
Hook script failed (exit status: 1)

Note: I've checked the environment variables for python and it's perfectly fine there.

[chrisjkuch]

Hey @phoeniXharsh, can you try with a more recently released version of Python 3.9? We test on Windows back to Python 3.9 but only against the most recent versions, and 3.9.0 is nearly 4 years old.

[phoeniXharsh]

@chrisjkuch I tried it will another Python version I had in my system i.e Python 3.11.4 which was released last year. Got the same error

(myenv) PS D:\Python_ML\MLOps\nyc-taxi-trip-analysis\test> cookiecutter --version
Cookiecutter 2.6.0 from D:\Python_ML\MLOps\nyc-taxi-trip-analysis\test\myenv\Lib\site-packages (Python 3.11.4 (tags/v3.11.4:d2340ef, Jun  7 2023, 05:45:37) [MSC v.1934 64 bit (AMD64)])
(myenv) PS D:\Python_ML\MLOps\nyc-taxi-trip-analysis\test> python --version
Python 3.11.4
(myenv) PS D:\Python_ML\MLOps\nyc-taxi-trip-analysis\test> ccds
You've downloaded C:\Users\HarshVardhan\.cookiecutters\cookiecutter-data-science before. Is it okay to delete 
and re-download it? [y/n] (y): y
project_name (project_name): demo
repo_name (demo): demo
module_name (demo): demo
author_name (Your name (or your organization/company/team)): demo
description (A short description of the project.): demo
python_version_number (3.10): 3.11.4
Select dataset_storage
    1 - none
    2 - azure
    3 - s3
    4 - gcs
    Choose from [1/2/3/4] (1):
Select environment_manager
    1 - virtualenv
    2 - conda
    3 - pipenv
    4 - none
    Choose from [1/2/3/4] (1):
Select dependency_file
    1 - requirements.txt
    2 - environment.yml
    3 - Pipfile
    Choose from [1/2/3] (1):
Select pydata_packages
    1 - none
    2 - basic
    Choose from [1/2] (1):
Select open_source_license
    1 - No license file
    2 - MIT
    3 - BSD-3-Clause
    Choose from [1/2/3] (1):
Select docs
    1 - mkdocs
    2 - none
    Choose from [1/2] (1):
Select include_code_scaffold
    1 - Yes
    2 - No
    Choose from [1/2] (1):
ERROR: Stopping generation because pre_gen_project hook script didn't exit successfully
Hook script failed (exit status: 1)

[chrisjkuch]

Can you make sure the ccds you're using comes from that environment? Something like which ccds? Can you also try running verbosely (ccds -v) our outputting to a debug file?