click-datetime 0.4.0

Datetime type support for click.

Click Datetime

Click support for Python's datetime types to allow developers to easy parse date strings as parameters to Python click CLIs.

Example

You can accept a datetime as a parameter to your click CLI

from datetime import datetime
import click
from click_datetime import Datetime


@click.option(
    "--date",
    type=Datetime(format="%Y-%m-%d"),
    default=datetime.now(),
    help="An example parsing and printing a datetime.",
)
@click.command()
def cli(date: datetime):
    click.echo("The date : {0}".format(date))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    cli()  # type: ignore

$ python main.py --date=2016-01-01

Installation

pip install click-datetime

Development

Building and packaging

poetry build

Testing the compiled wheel

# Create a virtual environment for testing
python -m .venv/test
source .venv/test/bin/activate

# Confirm importing and exporting is correct
python -c 'import click_datetime as cd; print(dir(cd))'

Authors

• Dawson Reid (@ddaws)