Composable command line interface toolkit
Project description
Click is a Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way with as little code as necessary. It’s the “Command Line Interface Creation Kit”. It’s highly configurable but comes with sensible defaults out of the box.
It aims to make the process of writing command line tools quick and fun while also preventing any frustration caused by the inability to implement an intended CLI API.
Click in three points:
Arbitrary nesting of commands
Automatic help page generation
Supports lazy loading of subcommands at runtime
Installing
Install and update using pip:
$ pip install click
Click supports Python 3.4 and newer, Python 2.7, and PyPy.
A Simple Example
What does it look like? Here is an example of a simple Click program:
import click
@click.command()
@click.option("--count", default=1, help="Number of greetings.")
@click.option("--name", prompt="Your name",
help="The person to greet.")
def hello(count, name):
"""Simple program that greets NAME for a total of COUNT times."""
for _ in range(count):
click.echo("Hello, %s!" % name)
if __name__ == '__main__':
hello()
And what it looks like when run:
$ python hello.py --count=3
Your name: Click
Hello, Click!
Hello, Click!
Hello, Click!
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Links
Website: https://palletsprojects.com/p/click/
Documentation: https://click.palletsprojects.com/
License: BSD
Releases: https://pypi.org/project/click/
Issue tracker: https://github.com/pallets/click/issues
Test status:
Linux, Mac: https://travis-ci.org/pallets/click
Test coverage: https://codecov.io/gh/pallets/click
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