parseargs 0.0.4

A simple package for parsing function arguments from the command line

ParseArgs

A simple, intuitive way to parse command line arguments. Simply make a function, and call parseargs on it.

• parses data types through annoations (annotations not required for string arguments)
• parses optional keyword arguments by adding them as optional cli arguments
• parses positional arguments in a variable called arglist (so don't use that as a keyword!)
• adds a description of the command by using the signature of the method.

Example

in fun.py:

from parseargs import parseargs



def fun(firstname, lastname:str, number:int = 5):
	print(f"Hello {firstname} {lastname}")
	print(f"Your number is {number}")
	number *= 2
	print(f"Twice your number is {number}")


parseargs(fun)

Now on the command line, you can do:

$ python fun.py ricky bobby --number 5

Notice how it will print out 10. If you remove the annotation declaring the number an int, it will instead print out 55, because it will interpret it as a string.

We can get the method signature with:

$ python fun.py -h
usage: test2.py [-h] [--number NUMBER] arglist arglist

signature = (firstname, lastname: str, number: int = 5)

positional arguments:
  arglist

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --number NUMBER