optmagic 1.1.0

Automatically make a command line interface from a python class or function.

optmagic version 1.1.0

This project enables you to create simple command line interfaces starting with a python class, or a python function that you want to expose directly to the shell.

It contains functionality which has not yet all been fully documented. Stay tuned.

Similar projects

• argparse
• invoke
• click
• docopt

Why not use one of those?

Ideally, the programmer should not have to specify anything extra than what the class or function already contains to expose its functionality. None of these other packages strive to accomplish that goal like optmagic does, as you can see in the following comparative examples.

TODO

Demo

TODO

Installing

To install the optmagic package, simply type the following command on your terminal:

$ pip3 install optmagic

Dependencies

The project depends on the following module for parsing the docstrings automatically:

• docstring_parser

If you want to run the test suite for optmagic you will also need the following extra libraries:

• pytest
• matplotlib
• pbs3

Extra documentation

More documentation is available at:

http://xapple.github.io/optmagic/optmagic

This documentation is simply generated with:

$ pdoc3 --html --output-dir docs --force optmagic