multicommand 0.0.6

Simple subcommand CLIs with argparse

multicommand

Simple subcommand CLIs with argparse.

Installation

pip install multicommand

Overview

multicommand enables you to easily write CLIs with deeply nested commands using vanilla argparse.

Just create a directory structure that reflects the command structure you want, add a parser to each module (don't worry about hooking them up!), and multicommand will do the rest.

multicommand turns a directory structure like this:

commands/unary/negate.py
commands/binary/add.py
commands/binary/divide.py
commands/binary/multiply.py
commands/binary/subtract.py

Into a command line application like this:

mycli unary negate ...
mycli binary add ...
mycli binary divide ...
mycli binary multiply ...
mycli binary subtract ...

All multicommand needs is for each module to define a module-level parser variable which points to an instance of argparse.ArgumentParser.

Getting Started

See the simple example.