manage.py

Human friendly CLI builder.

Installation

pip install manage.py

Quickstart

cat manage.py:

from manage import Manager

manager = Manager()

@manager.command
def echo(text, capitalyze=False):
    """print the given <name>"""
    if capitalyze:
        text = text.upper()
    return text

manage --help:

usage: manage [<namespace>.]<command> [<args>]

positional arguments:
  command     the command to run

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

available commands:
  echo        print the given <name>

manage echo --help:

$ manage echo --help

usage: manage [-h] [--capitalyze] text

print the given <name>

positional arguments:
  text          no description

optional arguments:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
  --capitalyze  no description

Managers

Managers can be used together by merging them:

from third_party import manager

my_app_manager.merge(manager)

# Merge within a new namespace:
my_app_manager.merge(manager, namespace='third_party')

Commands

Commands can be organized within namespaces:

@manager.command(namespace='config')
def set(key, value):
    # ...

Arguments

Argument definition can be overridden:

@manager.arg('first_arg', help='this is help for first arg')
@manager.command
def my_command(first_arg):
    # ...