The pcreate script and the core scaffolds ( starter , alchemy and zodb ) have been deprecated.

They have been replaced with the decision to embrace the popular cookiecutter project as a best-of-breed project templating solution.

pcreate was originally introduced when very few alternatives existed that supported Python 3. Fortunately the situation has improved and with possible tooling support for cookiecutters being discussed by major IDEs, and the simplicity of the jinja2 syntax, it is exciting to embrace the project moving forward!

All of Pyramid's official scaffolds as well as the tutorials have been ported to cookiecutters:

See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/2780