promptwithoptions 1.0.0

Input for command line questions with options

PromptWithOptions

Command line input with options for Python

Example

from promptwithoptions import (
    set_prompt_defaults,
    promptwithoptions,
)

clr_yellow = "\u001b[33m"
clr_l_green = "\u001b[32;1m"
clr_blue = "\u001b[34m"
clr_l_blue = "\u001b[34;1m"

my_options = ('one', 'two', 'three')

set_prompt_defaults(options_line_color=clr_yellow, options_number_color=clr_l_green, input_line_color=clr_blue, confirm_line_color=clr_l_blue)

promptwithoptions('How many', options=my_options, default=1, show_confirmation=True)

Available settings

These are all optional named arguments (in this order) of set_prompt_defaults and promptwithoptions.

prompt: prompt string - this appears as a question with a ? appended as long as hide_questionmark is not True

options: list of available options, without this

data_type: a callable that raises an exception if the input is invalid (e.g. int, bool)

default: default in case of empty input

allow_empty: boolean, if True then prompt doesn't repeat with empty input

allow_multiple: boolean, if True then comma-separated values are accepted and the return value is always a list (in fact a tuple)

allow_repetitive: boolean, if True then the same values can be added multiple times - only considered if allow_multiple is True

show_confirmation: boolean, if True then the accepted input is reprinted with the selected option (if options are given)

hide_key: boolean, if True the first item of each option doesn't get printed on the screen (if an option has multiple items like keys and values)

hide_questionmark: boolean, if True then '?' is not attached to prompt text (neither a ':' to the confirmation if shown)

hide_mandatory_sign: boolean, if True then '*' doesn't appear after the question if allow_empty is not True

hide_multiple_choice_sign: boolean, if True then '…' doesn't appear after the question if allow_multiple is True

no_interaction: boolean, if True default is applied automatically (if given) and no input is required (this is to apply --yes)

options_line_color: if given, options are displayed as a numbered list - this is the colour of the list items

options_number_color: if given, options are displayed as a numbered list - this is the colour of the numbers

input_line_color: as is

confirm_line_color: as is

Setting and resetting defaults

set_prompt_defaults() can be called multiple times.
A default value can be removed (set back to None) when _None_ is passed down like set_prompt_defaults(allow_empty="_None_"). Argument defaults can be removed at once by calling reset_defaults (from promptwithoptions import reset_defaults).

Options list

It's a plain list of strings, a list of keys and values or a dict.
If there are keys and values only a key is returned at the end. In that case keys can be stopped from printing by hide_key.

Multiple Choice

When allow_multiple is True then multiple values can be added if separated by ,s. Commas can be escaped by quotation marks similarly to CSV escape rules.

Entering empty value when default is given

Use '-' to explicitely get empty even when default is given and allow_empty=True.
Escape it as '-' if you need a literal hyphen.