argparse-action 0.1.1

untility module for argparse to create cli

argparse_action

argparse_action aims to be a minimalistic extension of argparse and creates cli options from the function signature given by inspect.signature.

import argparse
import argparse_action

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
action = argparse_action.Action(parser)

@action.add("e")
def echo(word, upper=False):
    print(word.upper() if upper else word)

namespace = pasrer.parse_args()
namespace.action(namespace)

Asumes that the code above is saved as my_script.py:

$ python3 my_script.py echo hello
hello

$ python3 my_script.py e hello
hello

$ python3 my_script.py echo --upper hello
HELLO

Installation

pip install argparse_action

Testing

make test

Documentation

Documentation can be build with the doc make target:

make doc

Online version can be read at readthedocs.org.