What's the point of the "format_python" and "copy_cookie" tasks?

[apehex]

Hello there, sweet cookie it helped me setup a bunch of repos, thanks 👍

I had no use for the python tasks though, so I wondered what they're meant for?

Why format python code on an empty directory?
Also why have a script copy static files into the target? Can't it be done manually, beforehand in the repo slug template?

May-be it's to avoid duplicating code between parent/child repos?