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Parse environment variables and CLI arguments for a given function signature.

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Argmagic

Automatically generate argparse based env-var/CLI-interface from a given function.

Example:

Given a function with a docstring and type hints.

def hello(name: str):
    '''
    Say hello to name.

    Args:
        name: Your name.

    Raises:
        Nothing.

    Returns:
        Nothing.
    '''
    print('Hello', name)

Create a CLI interface:

argmagic(hello)

Argmagic will call the function with all parameters filled from CLI arguments.

$ ./hello.py -h
usage: hello [-h] [--name NAME]

Say hello to name.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  --name NAME  Your name.

Additionally all specified parameters can also be defined via environment variables.

$ NAME=test hello.py
Hello test

These can then again be overriden by CLI arguments.

$ NAME=test hello.py --name something
Hello something

Support of composite types

Current parsing of lists, tuples and unions are supported.

For example a typehint containing List[str], will parse input [a, b, c] to a python list containing ["a", "b", "c"].

Also these types can be arbitrarily nested, such as Dict[str, List[int]] will correctly parse strings of structure {a: [1, 2, 3], b: [5, 3]}.

Syntax overview:

Tuple syntax:
(a, b, c)

List syntax:
[a, b, c]

Dict syntax:
{a: i, b: j, k: l}

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