🔒 Win267 Error in custom Cookiecutter template

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• Cookiecutter 2.6.0
• Python 3.11.9
• Windows (Powershell)

Win267 Error when running a user generated template

I was creating a user generated project according to This guide
And I got a (this was truncated)

           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\cookiecutter\utils.py", line 58, in work_in
    os.chdir(dirname)
NotADirectoryError: [WinError 267] The directory name is invalid: 'C:\\Users\\hp\\Desktop\\Scripts\\Templates\\Sample-Project\\{{cookiecutter.directory_name}}\\{{cookiecutter.file_name}}.py'

What I've run:

 python -m cookiecutter 'C:\Users\hp\Desktop\Scripts\Templates\Sample-Project\{{cookiecutter.directory_name}}'

In the Sample-Project directory

Template Structure

└───Sample-Project
    │   cookiecutter.json
    │
    └───{{cookiecutter.directory_name}}
            cookiecutter.json
            {{cookiecutter.file_name}}.py

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