microprobe.utils.cmdline.CLI

class CLI(description, **kwargs)

Bases: object

Object to define a Command Line Interface.

__init__(description, **kwargs)

Create a new command line parser.

Methods

__init__(description, **kwargs)	Create a new command line parser.
add_description(text)	Add more text to the description.
add_epilog(text)	Add an epilog to the help message.
add_flag(name, short, descr[, group, configfile])	Add a boolean flag.
add_group(name, description)	Add an option group.
add_option(name, short, default, descr[, …])	Add an option that takes an argument.
get(name)	param name:
main(options, main, *args, **kwargs)	Main wrapper with common error control.
save(filename[, full])	param filename:

Attributes

arg_parser
arguments	Dictionary mapping arguments to values.

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arg_parser

arguments

Dictionary mapping arguments to values.

add_description(text)

Add more text to the description.

Parameters:text (str) – Additional description text.

add_epilog(text)

Add an epilog to the help message.

Parameters:text (str) – Additional description text.

add_group(name, description)

Add an option group.

Allows the organization of options into groups.

Parameters:

• name (str) – Name of the group.
• description (str) – Short description. This is shown in the extended help.

add_flag(name, short, descr, group=None, configfile=True)

Add a boolean flag.

Parameters:

• name (str) – Name of the option.
• short (str or None) – Single-char name of the option.
• descr (str) – Description of the option.
• group (str) – Name of the option group of this option.

add_option(name, short, default, descr, opt_type=<type 'str'>, action=None, choices=None, group=None, metavar=None, required=False, nargs=None, configfile=True)

Add an option that takes an argument.

See argparse for extended help.

Parameters:

• name (str or None) – Name of the option. If None, uses short as the name for get().
• short (str or None) – Single-char name of the option.
• default – Default value.
• descr (str) – Description of the option.
• type – Option type (see python’s argparse documentation).
• action – Action when flag is given (see python’s argparse documentation).
• choices – Valid option values if type is choice.
• group (str) – Name of the option group of this option.

You cannot have both name and short with a None value.

get(name)

Parameters:name –

main(options, main, *args, **kwargs)

Main wrapper with common error control.

Parses command line options and then calls main.

Parameters:

• options (list of str) – Command line options.
• main (callable) – User-defined main function.
• implicit (str) – Option string to prepend when executing from script header (hash-bang syntax).
• skip (callable) – When given, skip stack trace until the given function.
• args – Extra arguments to main.

save(filename, full=False)

Parameters:

• filename –
• full –