monolith 0.3.0

monolith is an argparse based command line interface framework

Monolith

monolith is simple framwork for creating command line tools. Subcommands are class based (approach and part of implementation was inspired by Django management commands, however monolith uses argparse instead of optparse).

Supported Python versions are 2.6/2.7, 3.2+ and PyPy.

Example

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Example of how to create git-like execution manager with monolith.
This is completely fake command.
"""
from __future__ import print_function
from monolith.cli import SimpleExecutionManager
from monolith.cli import BaseCommand
from monolith.cli import LabelCommand
from monolith.cli import arg

class AddCommand(LabelCommand):

    def handle_label(self, label, namespace):
        print("A %s" % label)


class CommitCommand(BaseCommand):
    args = BaseCommand.args + [
        arg('-a', '--add', action='store_true', default=False),
        arg('-m', '--message', help="Commit's message", required=True),
    ]

    def handle(self, namespace):
        print('Commit message: %r' % namespace.message)
        if namespace.add:
            print(' * add switch given!')


def main():
    manager = SimpleExecutionManager('mygit', commands={
        'add': AddCommand,
        'commit': CommitCommand,
    })
    manager.execute()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()