pschwartz/interfacer

Multi-level command line Python framework

Interfacer

Interfacer is a multi-level command line support library, heavily inspired by Cobbler's command line structure, only a lot cleaner.

To use it, just write an example script like the one in 'example_bin' and some modules like the ones in 'example_modules'.

Interfacer is also a thin abstraction around optparse at the lowest level, which simplifies how easy it is to write new command line tools.

Explore the source in 'lib' to understand how it works.

Examples

# example_cli

usage: ./example_bin/example_cli <category> [subcommand] [--options]

  choose a category for information about available commands:
            tribbles - does things with tribbles

# example_cli tribbles

usage: ./example_bin/example_cli tribbles <subcommand> [--options]

  choose a subcommand:

                list - list the tribbles

# example_cli tribbles list --help

Usage: example_cli tribbles list [options]

Options:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit
      -n NAME, --name=NAME  list tribles only with this name

# example_cli tribbles list 

xyork
slorg
rooster
blinky
poorboy
willy

# example_cli tribbles list --name=willy

willy

License

Interfacer is MIT licensed (c) rPath 2012 and is very open to contributions, but not so much feature requests or bug reports (due to time constraints). Since it's so simple, just send me a pull request if you'd like to add or fix something.

Author

Michael DeHaan -- michael DOT dehaan AT gmail.com