I had the same problem.
I tried charm create -t python-basic mycharm and it seems to be working, it created the lib/ , scripts/ directory and the charm-helpers.yaml. But it didnt create the hooks.py file.
I had the same problem.
I tried
charm create -t python-basic mycharm
and it seems to be working, it created the lib/ , scripts/ directory and the charm-helpers.yaml. But it didnt create the hooks.py file.