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argdeclare
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An implementation of the interface provided by the cmdln module but using argparse to provide the option/arg heavy parsing.
Credit for this code goes foremost to Shakeeb Alireza, code was initially found: argdeclare: declarative interface to argparse
from argdeclare import Commander, option_group, option, arg
def test():
# only for options which are repeated across different funcs
common_options = option_group(
option('-t', '--type', action='store', help='specify type of package'),
arg('package', help='package to be (un)installed'),
option('--log', '-l', action='store_true', help='log is on')
)
class Application(Commander):
'a description of the test app'
name = 'app1'
version = '0.1'
default_args = ['install', '--help']
@option('--log', '-l', action='store_true', help='log is on')
@arg('pattern', help="pattern to delete")
def do_delete(self, options):
"help text for delete subcmd"
print(options)
@option('-f', '--force', action='store_true',
help='force through installation')
@common_options
def do_install(self, options):
"help text for install subcmd"
print(options)
@common_options
def do_uninstall(self, options):
"help text for uninstall subcmd"
print(options)
app = Application()
app.cmdline()
if __name__ == '__main__':
test()
FAQs
Argdeclare is a declarative argument configurator for python's argparse.
We found that argdeclare demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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