tyro 0.3.28

Strongly typed, zero-effort CLI interfaces

Documentation   •   pip install tyro

tyro is a library for building CLI interfaces and configuration objects with type-annotated Python.

Our core interface consists of one function, tyro.cli(), that generates argument parsers from Python callables and types.

A minimal example

As a replacement for argparse:

with argparse	with tyro
"""Sum two numbers from argparse.""" import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument( "--a", type=int, required=True, ) parser.add_argument( "--b", type=int, default=3, ) args = parser.parse_args() print(args.a + args.b)	"""Sum two numbers by calling a function with tyro.""" import tyro def main(a: int, b: int = 3) -> None: print(a + b) tyro.cli(main) """Sum two numbers by instantiating a dataclass with tyro.""" from dataclasses import dataclass import tyro @dataclass class Args: a: int b: int = 3 args = tyro.cli(Args) print(args.a + args.b)

For more examples, see our documentation.

Why tyro?

1. Strong typing.

   Unlike tools dependent on dictionaries, YAML, or dynamic namespaces, arguments populated by tyro benefit from IDE and language server-supported operations — think tab completion, rename, jump-to-def, docstrings on hover — as well as static checking tools like pyright and mypy.

2. Minimal overhead.

   Standard Python type annotations, docstrings, and default values are parsed to automatically generate command-line interfaces with informative helptext.

   If you're familiar with type annotations and docstrings in Python, you already know how to use tyro! If you're not, learning to use tyro reduces to learning to write modern Python.

   Hate tyro? Just remove one line of code, and you're left with beautiful, type-annotated, and documented vanilla Python that can be used with a range of other configuration libraries.

3. Modularity.

   tyro supports hierarchical configuration structures, which make it easy to distribute definitions, defaults, and documentation of configurable fields across modules or source files.

4. Tab completion.

   By extending shtab, tyro automatically generates tab completion scripts for bash, zsh, and tcsh.

In the wild

tyro is still a new library, but being stress tested in several projects!

• nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio provides a set of tools for end-to-end training, testing, and rendering of neural radiance fields.
• Sea-Snell/JAXSeq is a library for distributed training of large language models in JAX.
• kevinzakka/obj2mjcf is an interface for processing composite Wavefront OBJ files for Mujoco.
• brentyi/tensorf-jax is an unofficial implementation of Tensorial Radiance Fields in JAX.