argumentor

argumentor is a simple and lightweight library to build complex command-line tools.

Features

• Differenciate commands from options
• Define aliases for commands and options
• Automatically generate help pages
• Set default values
• No external dependencies

Installation

Using pip

The argumentor library can be installed from the Python Package Index (PyPI):

$ pip install argumentor

Installing from source

Using pip, it is also possible to install a package directly from source.

First clone the source code repository hosted on Codeberg:

$ git clone https://codeberg.org/camelia/python-argumentor argumentor

Then, enter the local repository and install argumentor (you may want to use a virtual environment):

$ cd argumentor
$ pip install .

Usage

Below is a minimalist code snippet that aims to demonstrate some basic uses of argumentor:

import sys
from argumentor import Argumentor
from argumentor.exc import ParsingError

argm = Argumentor("program-name")

argm.register_command(
    "cmd1",
    description="command 1",
)
argm.register_command(
    "cmd2",
    description="command 2",
)

argm.register_option(
    "--opt",
    "-o",
    description="global option 1",
)

try:
    cmd, opts = argm.parse()
except ParsingError as err:
    print(err)
    sys.exit(1)

More information about usage can be found in the documentation.

License

argumentor is free software! You are free to use, copy, modify, share and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or later.