angelolicastro / cli-boilerplate-generator

Generates a friendly command line interface (CLI) boilerplate Python program.

Command Line Argument (CLI) Boilerplate Generator

CLI Boilerplate Generator is a program that generates a friendly CLI boilerplate Python program using the argparse module.

Requirement

• Python 2 or Python 3

Installation

git clone https://github.com/angelolicastro/cli-boilerplate-generator.git

Usage

cli-boilerplate-generator.py [_h] [_force] name args [args ...]

Example

$ python cli-boilerplate-generator.py myProgramName myFirstArgument mySecondArgument --myFirstFlag
cli-boilerplate-generator.py: myProgramName.py was successfully generated!

This will generate the following program.

$ cat myProgramName.py

from argparse import ArgumentParser

def main():
	parser = ArgumentParser()

	parser.add_argument('myFirstArgument')
	parser.add_argument('mySecondArgument')
	parser.add_argument('--myFirstFlag')

	args = parser.parse_args()

	# TODO: Add some stuff here!

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Angelo Licastro