Allegro trains integration.

[ramonemiliani93]

Hi, I am currently trying to integrate python-fire and trains. Trains, at the moment, is capable of automatically detecting the arguments when using argparse. I tried with fire but unfortunately the same does not happen. Could you point me to where the argument parsing happens in fire?

[dbieber]

The arguments are initially parsed here:

python-fire/fire/core.py

Line 123 in 878b8d8

args, flag_args = parser.SeparateFlagArgs(args)

You can see how they're used in the _Fire function's large loop, described here:

python-fire/fire/core.py

Lines 366 to 388 in 878b8d8

	The steps performed by this method are:
	1. Parse any Flag args (the args after the final --)
	2. Start with component as the current component.
	2a. If the current component is a class, instantiate it using args from args.
	2b. If the component is a routine, call it using args from args.
	2c. If the component is a sequence, index into it using an arg from
	args.
	2d. If possible, access a member from the component using an arg from args.
	2e. If the component is a callable object, call it using args from args.
	2f. Repeat 2a-2e until no args remain.
	Note: Only the first applicable rule from 2a-2e is applied in each iteration.
	After each iteration of step 2a-2e, the current component is updated to be the
	result of the applied rule.
	3a. Embed into ipython REPL if interactive mode is selected.
	3b. Generate a completion script if that flag is provided.
	In step 2, arguments will only ever be consumed up to a separator; a single
	step will never consume arguments from both sides of a separator.
	The separator defaults to a hyphen (-), and can be overwritten with the
	--separator Fire argument.

Let me know if you have further questions.

[bmartinn]

Thanks @dbieber !
It seems the _ParseArgs is where the magic happens, defining the names of the arguments, default values etc. Is this correct?

[dbieber]

Yes that's right.
You'll also want to take a look at

python-fire/fire/core.py

Lines 670 to 671 in 878b8d8

	parse = _MakeParseFn(fn, metadata)
	(varargs, kwargs), consumed_args, remaining_args, capacity = parse(args)

^^That's the path for parsing arguments to a function. Fire also supports using command line arguments for e.g. accessing a member of an object too.