A library to manage command line interface for an application.
Project description
A simple library to handle command line of an application with support for subcommands, as well as, automatic help text extraction from doc strings.
Supported platforms
python 2.7 / 3.4
Linux / Windows
Features
Decorator as well as subclass based command addition.
Custom help text formatter which improves upon the rather lousy default formatter.
Automatic help text extraction from doc strings.
Autocomplete support (Linux only).
Usage
A simple case of just the main command (without any subcommands):
from redcmd.api import maincmd, execute_commandline @maincmd def main(a, b): '''Add two numbers. a: first number b: second number This is where extra help text goes. It can be more than one line.''' try: print('sum: %d'%(int(a) + int(b))) except ValueError: print('bad integer') raise CommandError() execute_commandline()
See examples directory in code for decorator and subclass based command handling. [https://github.com/amol9/redcmd/tree/master/examples]
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