dykes 0.4.0

A tiny declarative Argparse wrapper.

Do You Know Every Selection?

dykes helps you get a handle on your tools.

It uses typing.NamedTuples or dataclasses to declaratively set up your argument parser and then returns an instance of your argument class.

An example usage, in example_application.py

from dataclasses import dataclass
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Annotated

import dykes

@dataclass
class ExampleApplication:
    path: Annotated[Path, "The paths to operate on."]
    dry_run: bool
    prompt: dykes.StoreFalse
    verbosity: dykes.Count

if __name__ == "__main__":
    arguments = dykes.parse_args(ExampleApplication)
    print(arguments)

Use this from the command line:

python example_application.py ~ -d -vv

And the output looks like:

ExampleApplication(path=Path('~'), dry_run=True, prompt=True, verbosity=2)

Inlining dykes

While dykes is packaged to be used with pip, it is self-contained and uses relative imports for its own code. If you would like to vendor it, take the files under src/dykes/ and include it in your own project.

What works

• Positional parameters
• Store True flags
  • Two variants: type a bool or use dykes.StoreTrue
• Store False flags
• Count flags
• A StrEnum of Argparse actions. dykes.Action instances can be passed to directly to argparse.add_parameter
• Parameter help strings: provide a bare string via Annotated
• Application description via your dataclass or NamedTuple's docstring.
• snake_case field names converted to --kebab-case long options.
• Number of Args
  • Implicitly with arg: list[T]
  • explicitly via arg: Annotated[list[T], dykes.options.NArgs("+")]
  • Explicit can use positional arguments with a default factory via dataclasses.field as well.

What works but is underwhelming

• Parameter defaults. (positional parameters can't use them, and the other supported fields have good ones.)

Coming Soon

• More actions
  • Store Const
  • Append
  • Append Const
  • Extend
  • Version
• More Options
  • Defining custom flags (currently derived from names)
  • const
  • choices
  • required
  • deprecated
• Proper documentation

Coming Maybe

• Application framework based on __call__
• Subcommands

Isn't That Name Insensitive?

Author and maintainer here: I am a transgender lesbian and I find it funny. If you don't want that word in your project, that's fine! Please see instructions above on how to inline the project. Feel free to rename it.