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- Metadata-Version: 2.4
- Name: argcomplete
- Version: 3.5.3
- Summary: Bash tab completion for argparse
- Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete
- Project-URL: Documentation, https://kislyuk.github.io/argcomplete
- Project-URL: Source Code, https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete
- Project-URL: Issue Tracker, https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/issues
- Project-URL: Change Log, https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/blob/develop/Changes.rst
- Author: Andrey Kislyuk
- Author-email: kislyuk@gmail.com
- License: Apache Software License
- License-File: LICENSE.rst
- License-File: NOTICE
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- Classifier: Topic :: Software Development
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- argcomplete - Bash/zsh tab completion for argparse
- ==================================================
- *Tab complete all the things!*
- Argcomplete provides easy, extensible command line tab completion of arguments for your Python application.
- It makes two assumptions:
- * You're using bash or zsh as your shell
- * You're using `argparse <http://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html>`_ to manage your command line arguments/options
- Argcomplete is particularly useful if your program has lots of options or subparsers, and if your program can
- dynamically suggest completions for your argument/option values (for example, if the user is browsing resources over
- the network).
- Installation
- ------------
- ::
- pip install argcomplete
- activate-global-python-argcomplete
- See `Activating global completion`_ below for details about the second step.
- Refresh your shell environment (start a new shell).
- Synopsis
- --------
- Add the ``PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK`` marker and a call to ``argcomplete.autocomplete()`` to your Python application as
- follows:
- .. code-block:: python
- #!/usr/bin/env python
- # PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK
- import argcomplete, argparse
- parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
- ...
- argcomplete.autocomplete(parser)
- args = parser.parse_args()
- ...
- If using ``pyproject.toml`` ``[project.scripts]`` entry points, the ``PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK`` marker should appear
- at the beginning of the file that contains the entry point.
- Register your Python application with your shell's completion framework by running ``register-python-argcomplete``::
- eval "$(register-python-argcomplete my-python-app)"
- Quotes are significant; the registration will fail without them. See `Global completion`_ below for a way to enable
- argcomplete generally without registering each application individually.
- argcomplete.autocomplete(*parser*)
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This method is the entry point to the module. It must be called **after** ArgumentParser construction is complete, but
- **before** the ``ArgumentParser.parse_args()`` method is called. The method looks for an environment variable that the
- completion hook shellcode sets, and if it's there, collects completions, prints them to the output stream (fd 8 by
- default), and exits. Otherwise, it returns to the caller immediately.
- .. admonition:: Side effects
- Argcomplete gets completions by running your program. It intercepts the execution flow at the moment
- ``argcomplete.autocomplete()`` is called. After sending completions, it exits using ``exit_method`` (``os._exit``
- by default). This means if your program has any side effects that happen before ``argcomplete`` is called, those
- side effects will happen every time the user presses ``<TAB>`` (although anything your program prints to stdout or
- stderr will be suppressed). For this reason it's best to construct the argument parser and call
- ``argcomplete.autocomplete()`` as early as possible in your execution flow.
- .. admonition:: Performance
- If the program takes a long time to get to the point where ``argcomplete.autocomplete()`` is called, the tab completion
- process will feel sluggish, and the user may lose confidence in it. So it's also important to minimize the startup time
- of the program up to that point (for example, by deferring initialization or importing of large modules until after
- parsing options).
- Specifying completers
- ---------------------
- You can specify custom completion functions for your options and arguments. Two styles are supported: callable and
- readline-style. Callable completers are simpler. They are called with the following keyword arguments:
- * ``prefix``: The prefix text of the last word before the cursor on the command line.
- For dynamic completers, this can be used to reduce the work required to generate possible completions.
- * ``action``: The ``argparse.Action`` instance that this completer was called for.
- * ``parser``: The ``argparse.ArgumentParser`` instance that the action was taken by.
- * ``parsed_args``: The result of argument parsing so far (the ``argparse.Namespace`` args object normally returned by
- ``ArgumentParser.parse_args()``).
- Completers can return their completions as an iterable of strings or a mapping (dict) of strings to their
- descriptions (zsh will display the descriptions as context help alongside completions). An example completer for names
- of environment variables might look like this:
- .. code-block:: python
- def EnvironCompleter(**kwargs):
- return os.environ
- To specify a completer for an argument or option, set the ``completer`` attribute of its associated action. An easy
- way to do this at definition time is:
- .. code-block:: python
- from argcomplete.completers import EnvironCompleter
- parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
- parser.add_argument("--env-var1").completer = EnvironCompleter
- parser.add_argument("--env-var2").completer = EnvironCompleter
- argcomplete.autocomplete(parser)
- If you specify the ``choices`` keyword for an argparse option or argument (and don't specify a completer), it will be
- used for completions.
- A completer that is initialized with a set of all possible choices of values for its action might look like this:
- .. code-block:: python
- class ChoicesCompleter(object):
- def __init__(self, choices):
- self.choices = choices
- def __call__(self, **kwargs):
- return self.choices
- The following two ways to specify a static set of choices are equivalent for completion purposes:
- .. code-block:: python
- from argcomplete.completers import ChoicesCompleter
- parser.add_argument("--protocol", choices=('http', 'https', 'ssh', 'rsync', 'wss'))
- parser.add_argument("--proto").completer=ChoicesCompleter(('http', 'https', 'ssh', 'rsync', 'wss'))
- Note that if you use the ``choices=<completions>`` option, argparse will show
- all these choices in the ``--help`` output by default. To prevent this, set
- ``metavar`` (like ``parser.add_argument("--protocol", metavar="PROTOCOL",
- choices=('http', 'https', 'ssh', 'rsync', 'wss'))``).
- The following `script <https://raw.github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/master/docs/examples/describe_github_user.py>`_ uses
- ``parsed_args`` and `Requests <http://python-requests.org/>`_ to query GitHub for publicly known members of an
- organization and complete their names, then prints the member description:
- .. code-block:: python
- #!/usr/bin/env python
- # PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK
- import argcomplete, argparse, requests, pprint
- def github_org_members(prefix, parsed_args, **kwargs):
- resource = "https://api.github.com/orgs/{org}/members".format(org=parsed_args.organization)
- return (member['login'] for member in requests.get(resource).json() if member['login'].startswith(prefix))
- parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
- parser.add_argument("--organization", help="GitHub organization")
- parser.add_argument("--member", help="GitHub member").completer = github_org_members
- argcomplete.autocomplete(parser)
- args = parser.parse_args()
- pprint.pprint(requests.get("https://api.github.com/users/{m}".format(m=args.member)).json())
- `Try it <https://raw.github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/master/docs/examples/describe_github_user.py>`_ like this::
- ./describe_github_user.py --organization heroku --member <TAB>
- If you have a useful completer to add to the `completer library
- <https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/blob/master/argcomplete/completers.py>`_, send a pull request!
- Readline-style completers
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The readline_ module defines a completer protocol in rlcompleter_. Readline-style completers are also supported by
- argcomplete, so you can use the same completer object both in an interactive readline-powered shell and on the command
- line. For example, you can use the readline-style completer provided by IPython_ to get introspective completions like
- you would get in the IPython shell:
- .. _readline: http://docs.python.org/3/library/readline.html
- .. _rlcompleter: http://docs.python.org/3/library/rlcompleter.html#completer-objects
- .. _IPython: http://ipython.org/
- .. code-block:: python
- import IPython
- parser.add_argument("--python-name").completer = IPython.core.completer.Completer()
- ``argcomplete.CompletionFinder.rl_complete`` can also be used to plug in an argparse parser as a readline completer.
- Printing warnings in completers
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Normal stdout/stderr output is suspended when argcomplete runs. Sometimes, though, when the user presses ``<TAB>``, it's
- appropriate to print information about why completions generation failed. To do this, use ``warn``:
- .. code-block:: python
- from argcomplete import warn
- def AwesomeWebServiceCompleter(prefix, **kwargs):
- if login_failed:
- warn("Please log in to Awesome Web Service to use autocompletion")
- return completions
- Using a custom completion validator
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- By default, argcomplete validates your completions by checking if they start with the prefix given to the completer. You
- can override this validation check by supplying the ``validator`` keyword to ``argcomplete.autocomplete()``:
- .. code-block:: python
- def my_validator(completion_candidate, current_input):
- """Complete non-prefix substring matches."""
- return current_input in completion_candidate
- argcomplete.autocomplete(parser, validator=my_validator)
- Global completion
- -----------------
- In global completion mode, you don't have to register each argcomplete-capable executable separately. Instead, the shell
- will look for the string **PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK** in the first 1024 bytes of any executable that it's running
- completion for, and if it's found, follow the rest of the argcomplete protocol as described above.
- Additionally, completion is activated for scripts run as ``python <script>`` and ``python -m <module>``. If you're using
- multiple Python versions on the same system, the version being used to run the script must have argcomplete installed.
- .. admonition:: Bash version compatibility
- When using bash, global completion requires bash support for ``complete -D``, which was introduced in bash 4.2. Since
- Mac OS ships with an outdated version of Bash (3.2), you can either use zsh or install a newer version of bash using
- `Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>`_ (``brew install bash`` - you will also need to add ``/opt/homebrew/bin/bash`` to
- ``/etc/shells``, and run ``chsh`` to change your shell). You can check the version of the running copy of bash with
- ``echo $BASH_VERSION``.
- .. note:: If you use ``project.scripts`` directives to provide command line entry points to your package,
- argcomplete will follow the wrapper scripts to their destination and look for ``PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK`` in the
- first kilobyte of the file containing the destination code.
- If you choose not to use global completion, or ship a completion module that depends on argcomplete, you must register
- your script explicitly using ``eval "$(register-python-argcomplete my-python-app)"``. Standard completion module
- registration rules apply: namely, the script name is passed directly to ``complete``, meaning it is only tab completed
- when invoked exactly as it was registered. In the above example, ``my-python-app`` must be on the path, and the user
- must be attempting to complete it by that name. The above line alone would **not** allow you to complete
- ``./my-python-app``, or ``/path/to/my-python-app``.
- Activating global completion
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The script ``activate-global-python-argcomplete`` installs the global completion script
- `bash_completion.d/_python-argcomplete <https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/blob/master/argcomplete/bash_completion.d/_python-argcomplete>`_
- into an appropriate location on your system for both bash and zsh. The specific location depends on your platform and
- whether you installed argcomplete system-wide using ``sudo`` or locally (into your user's home directory).
- Zsh Support
- -----------
- Argcomplete supports zsh. On top of plain completions like in bash, zsh allows you to see argparse help strings as
- completion descriptions. All shellcode included with argcomplete is compatible with both bash and zsh, so the same
- completer commands ``activate-global-python-argcomplete`` and ``eval "$(register-python-argcomplete my-python-app)"``
- work for zsh as well.
- Python Support
- --------------
- Argcomplete requires Python 3.7+.
- Support for other shells
- ------------------------
- Argcomplete maintainers provide support only for the bash and zsh shells on Linux and MacOS. For resources related to
- other shells and platforms, including fish, tcsh, xonsh, powershell, and Windows, please see the
- `contrib <https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/tree/develop/contrib>`_ directory.
- Common Problems
- ---------------
- If global completion is not completing your script, bash may have registered a default completion function::
- $ complete | grep my-python-app
- complete -F _minimal my-python-app
- You can fix this by restarting your shell, or by running ``complete -r my-python-app``.
- Debugging
- ---------
- Set the ``_ARC_DEBUG`` variable in your shell to enable verbose debug output every time argcomplete runs. This will
- disrupt the command line composition state of your terminal, but make it possible to see the internal state of the
- completer if it encounters problems.
- Acknowledgments
- ---------------
- Inspired and informed by the optcomplete_ module by Martin Blais.
- .. _optcomplete: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/optcomplete
- Links
- -----
- * `Project home page (GitHub) <https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete>`_
- * `Documentation <https://kislyuk.github.io/argcomplete/>`_
- * `Package distribution (PyPI) <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/argcomplete>`_
- * `Change log <https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/blob/master/Changes.rst>`_
- Bugs
- ~~~~
- Please report bugs, issues, feature requests, etc. on `GitHub <https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/issues>`_.
- License
- -------
- Copyright 2012-2023, Andrey Kislyuk and argcomplete contributors. Licensed under the terms of the
- `Apache License, Version 2.0 <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>`_. Distribution of the LICENSE and NOTICE
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