commandparse 1.1.2

CLI application commands parser

commandparse

Module to parse command based CLI application.

Usage:

• Subclass the Command class
• Add a method with a name such as prefix_commandname with kwargs as required argument
• Create an ArgumentParser instance
• Call the Subclass.add_suparsers with the ArgumentParser instance and other settings
• Use the dispatch_command function with the args returned by parser.parse_args()

parser = ArgumentParser(...)
[...]
Subclass.add_subparsers(parser, prefixes=["get_", "do_", ...], title="commands", description="available commands")

cmd = Subclass(...)
cmd.dispatch_command(commands, args)

See example.py for a more complete example. For a real world application using this lib, see: https://github.com/franc-pentest/ldeep