CliArgTools

Small and easy to use cross-platform Python library for working with command line arguments. CliArgTools allows you to easily get the command line arguments, check if the flags are provided and generate and/or output error message if cli arguments given by the user is incorrect.

Code example:

from src import cliargtools

FILEPATH = cliargtools.getArgByFlag('-fp')  # will add required flag -fp
DEBUG = cliargtools.isFlagPresent('-debug') # will check for optional flag -debug
ALL_ARGS = cliargtools.getAllArgs()         # will return all the arguments given

if (DEBUG): 
    print("debug: " + str(DEBUG))
    print("some filepath: " + FILEPATH)                 # printing given filepath  and all the arguments
    print("cli arguments: " + ' '.join(ALL_ARGS))       # if -debug argument is present
else: 
    print("Sadly, no debug, but the program still works!")

GetArgsByFlag

Can be used to get the value provided after any flag.

arguments:

required:

• flag - string that will be used to identiry the argument (example: "-i")

optional:

• optional: bool = False specifies if the argument is optional or required
• defaultValue: any - value that will be returned if not value was given by user
• errorMessage: str - will be printed if any error is present
• errorMessageIfNoArg: str - will be printed if flag was given but the value wasn't provided
• errorMessageIfNoFlag: str - will be printed if required flag wasn't given
• defaultErrors: bool = True - specifies if default errors will be printed, True by default.

returns:

• str - string if given by the user after the flag
• defaultValue - if required argument is not given by the user

By default the flag argument will be required by the program, but can be set to optional with optional keyword argument. In this case will return None if the value wasn't present.

If argument is not optional will print the default error message, specifying what is wrong with the arguments given by the user.

Error messages can be overriden by the errorMessage, errorMessageIfNoArg, and errorMessageIfNoFlag keyword arguments.

Default error messages can be disabled by setting defaultArgumets to False

getArgByFlag(flag: str, optional:bool = False, defaultValue:str = None, 
                 errorMessage:str = None, errorMessageIfNoArg:str = None, 
                 errorMessageIfNoFlag:str = None, defaultErrors:bool = True)

isFlagPresent

Can be used to check if the flag is given by the user.

arguments:

required:

• flag - string that will be used to identiry the argument (example: "-i")

optional:

• optional: bool = True specifies if the flag is optional or required
• errorMessage: str - will be printed if any error is present
• defaultErrors: bool = True - specifies if default errors will be printed, True by default.

returns:

• bool - True or False value where True means that argument was given by the user, and False means that it is missing.

By default the flag is optional, it means that no error missage will be printed if the flag is missing and False will be returned. This behaviour can be changed by the optional keyword argument. if optional=False will print errorMessage if the flag wasn't present.

Default error messages can be disabled by setting defaultArgumets to False Error message can be overriden by the errorMessage keyword argument.

isFlagPresent(flag, optional=True, errorMessage=None, defaultErrors:bool = True)

getAllArgs

Can be used to get the list of all the arguments given by the user

returns:

• list - list of all the values given as a cli arguments by the user

getAllArgs()