PyMenus 0.2.0

Flexible cli menu creator

PyMenus

pymenus is python module/library that generates flexible cli menus.

The approach that is considered of an app using pymenus is as defined below:

• The app have a main menu
• This main menu might have some sub-menus
• As each sub-menu can also have multiple sub-menus
• An end point for each menu where user can select what should happen next (excluding sub-menus), is called Option
• Option is a function that will be called when the user selects it in a menu.

Demonstration of how this works

MainMenu/
├─── SubMenu_1/
│   ├─── anotherSubMenu/
│   └─── myoption_1
└─── SubMenu_2/
    ├─── myoption_2
    └─── myoption_3

In the example above, as you can see, App starts with a menu called MainMenu.
This contains 2 sub-menus called SubMenu_1 and SubMenu_2. This means you can navigate to one of these menus when you are in MainMenu.
Now if you navigate to SubMenu_1, you have 2 choices:

• anotherSubMenu which is a sub-menu (empty)
• myoption_1 which is an Option object that which will call a specified function when you navigate to it.

from pymenus import Menu,Option

# Creating main menu
main_menu = Menu(title="MainMenu")
# Creating other menus
privacy_menu = Menu(title="Privacy")
data_menu = Menu(title="Data and Storage")

# functions of our Options
def change_password_function():
    print("password can not be changed")
def change_name_function(new_name):
    print(f"your new name is: {new_name}")

# Defining the Options
change_password = Option(title="Change password", function=change_password_function)
change_name = Option(title="Change name", function=change_name_function, kwargs={"new_name":"MY_NEW_NAME"})

# Adding declared options to the privacy_menu options
privacy_menu.add_options(
    change_name,
    change_password
)

# Adding privacy_menu and data_menu to main_menu
main_menu.add_submenus(privacy_menu, data_menu)

# Start of the app
main_menu.execute()