python-cli-template

A template repository used for building cli. Feature include:

• An argument parser with samples for common functions such as:
  • help
  • verbose
  • quiet
  • mandatory and optional arguments
  • arguments with multiple values
• Logging
  • to console and to file
  • custom formatting options

This is a GitHub template repository which you can use as a base by clicking "use this template"

pypi and pip

To install with pip, you first need to upload to pypi. Instruction on how to do that are available at https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/.

Included is the setup.py needed for pypi and pip and various other files required such as __init__.py required according to the packaging projects tutorial mentioned above and a __main__.py which is where the cli code lives

you can use pip install -e /path/to/package/ to test how the package would install.

You will have to modify all the included .py files. Instructions on how to are mentioned in the files themselves