nathanielksmith

Tofu Roll

While working on the second version of Done, a basic command line todo list tool, I realized I had written a bunch of code to generalize routing command line arguments to python methods. It seemed pretty useful, so I extracted it and turned it into a miniature framework for writing command line applications.

Code speaks louder than words, so..:

greetings.py:

from tofuroll.tofuroll import *

class app(TofuApp):
    @command
    def hi(self, options, args):
        if options.name:
            print "Hi, %s" % options.name
        else:
            print "Hi there"

    @option
    def name(self):
        return {
            'help' : "someone's name"
        }

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app().run()

on the command line:

$: python greetings.py hi
Hi there
$: python greetings.py hi -n nate
Hi, nate

For a more interesting example involving the peewee orm, check out done2.py.

tofuroll can be installed via pip (pip install tofuroll) and its source is available on github.