clams 0.0.5

Create simple, nested, command-line interfaces.

Create simple, nested, command-line interfaces with Clams (Command Line Applications Made Simple).

Installation

pip install clams

Example

A simple example with hello and goodbye subcommands. This can be found at /demo/salutation.py.

from clams import arg, Command


salutation = Command('salutation')


@salutation.register('hello')
@arg('name', nargs='?')  # same interface as argparse's ``add_argument``
def handler(name):
    print 'Hello %s' % (name or 'Nick')


@salutation.register('goodbye')
@arg('name', nargs='?')
def handler(name):
    print 'Goodbye %s' % (name or 'Nick')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    salutation.init()
    salutation.parse_args()

Usage:

$ cd demo

$ ./salutation.py hello
Hello Nick

$ ./salutation.py hello Jason
Hello Jason

$ ./salutation.py goodbye "my friend."
Goodbye my friend.

Documentation

Clams documentation is available on ReadTheDocs and can be found locally in the /docs directory.

Issue Reporting and Contact Information

If you have any problems with this software, please take a moment to report them at https://github.com/unbservices/clams or by email to [e-mail].

If you are a security researcher or believe you have found a security vulnerability in this software, please contact us by email at [e-mail].

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome, whether it’s reporting a bug or sending a pull request. If you want to help, but don’t know where to start, email me at [e-mail] and I’ll try to point you in the right direction.

Copyright and License Information

Copyright (c) 2015 Nick Zarczynski

This project is licensed under the MIT license. Please see the LICENSE file for more information.