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Create argparser automatically from functions

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Overview

A wrapper around argparser to help build CLIs from functions. Uses type-hints extensively :snake:.

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Setup

:gear: Installation

Install it directly into an activated virtual environment:

$ pip install arger

or add it to your Poetry project:

$ poetry add arger

:books: Usage

  • create a python file called test.py
from arger import Arger

def main(param1: int, param2: str, kw1=None, kw2=False):
    """Example function with types documented in the docstring.

    :param param1: The first parameter.
    :param param2: The second parameter.
    """
    print(locals())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    Arger(main).run()
  • Here Arger is just a subclass of ArgumentParser. It will not conceal you from using other argparse libraries.

  • run this normally with

python test.py 100 param2
  • Checkout examples folder and documentation to see more of arger in action. It supports any level of sub-commands.

Features

  • Uses docstring to parse help comment for arguments. Supports

  • Flags will be generated from parameter-name.

    1. e.g. def main(param: ...) -> -p, --param
    2. If needed you could declare it inside docstring like :param arg1: -a --arg this is the document.
  • one can use Argument class to pass any values to the parser.add_argument function

  • The decorated functions can be composed to form nested sub-commands of any level.

  • Most of the Standard types supported. Please see examples for more supported types with examples.

NOTE

  • *args supported but no **kwargs support yet.
  • all optional arguments that start with underscore is not passed to Parser. They are considered private to the function implementation. Some parameter names with special meaning
    • _namespace_ -> to get the output from the ArgumentParser.parse_args()
    • _arger_ -> to get the parser instance

Argparser enhancements

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