prompt-smart-menu 0.1

Library for building command line menus in Python

prompt_smart_menu is a library for building command line menus for terminal applications in Python. It allows you to create a multi-tiered argument parsing menu for executing different subcommands of a command line application.

Read the documentation on readthedocs.

Description

This library is designed around parsing a command string, not command line arguments. That is, it is intended to be used inside a python application using an input() type interface.

For command line arguments passed to the python script, a library such as argparse would be better suited. Though this library could be used for such purpose.

Though not required, this library was designed to augment the auto-completion feature of Python Prompt Toolkit. The prompt_toolkit library is very powerful, check it out!

Features

• Declarative interface (That’s why I built this :] )

• Integration with prompt_toolkit auto-completion

• Support for python keyword arguments.

• Different parsers for type casting arguments (e.g. numbers).

• Ability to build custom argument parser.

• Argument validation for endpoint functions.

• Flexibility to mix options (e.g. parsers) for different subcommands.

• No dependencies, though prompt_toolkit highly recommended.

Installation

pip install prompt_smart_menu

Getting started

See documentation on readthedocs.