corgy
Elegant command line parsing for Python.
Corgy allows you to create a command line interface in Python, without worrying about boilerplate code. This results in cleaner, more modular code.
from corgy import Corgy
class ArgGroup(Corgy):
arg1: Annotated[Optional[int], "optional number"]
arg2: Annotated[bool, "a boolean"]
class MyArgs(Corgy):
arg1: Annotated[int, "a number"] = 1
arg2: Annotated[Sequence[float], "at least one float"]
grp1: Annotated[ArgGroup, "group 1"]
args = MyArgs.parse_from_cmdline()
Compare this to the equivalent code which uses argparse:
from argparse import ArgumentParser, BooleanOptionalAction
parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--arg1", type=int, help="a number", default=1)
parser.add_argument("--arg2", type=float, nargs="+", help="at least one float", required=True)
grp_parser = parser.add_argument_group("group 1")
grp_parser.add_argument("--grp1:arg1", type=int, help="optional number")
grp_parser.add_argument("--grp1:arg2", help="a boolean", action=BooleanOptionalAction)
args = parser.parse_args()
Corgy also provides support for more informative help messages from argparse
, and colorized output:
Install
corgy
is available on PyPI, and can be installed with pip:
pip install corgy
The full corgy
package requires Python 3.9 or higher. Python 3.7 and 3.8 are also supported, but only have access to CorgyHelpFormatter
, and corgy.types
.
Support for colorized output requires the crayons
package, also available on PyPI. You can pull it as a dependency for corgy
by installing with the colors
extra:
pip install corgy[colors]
Usage
For documentation on usage, refer to docs/index.md.