ydb/contrib/python/argcomplete/py2

argcomplete - Bash tab completion for argparse
==============================================
*Tab complete all the things!*

Argcomplete provides easy, extensible command line tab completion of arguments for your Python script.

It makes two assumptions:

* You're using bash as your shell (limited support for zsh, fish, and tcsh is available)
* You're using `argparse `_ 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
------------
::

pip3 install argcomplete
activate-global-python-argcomplete

See `Activating global completion`_ below for details about the second step (or if it reports an error).

Refresh your bash environment (start a new shell or ``source /etc/profile``).

Synopsis
--------
Python code (e.g. ``my-awesome-script``):

.. code-block:: python

#!/usr/bin/env python
# PYTHON_ARGCOMPLETE_OK
import argcomplete, argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
...
argcomplete.autocomplete(parser)
args = parser.parse_args()
...

Shellcode (only necessary if global completion is not activated - see `Global completion`_ below), to be put in e.g. ``.bashrc``::

eval "$(register-python-argcomplete my-awesome-script)"

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 ```` (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 should return their completions as a list of strings. 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=`` 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 `_ uses
``parsed_args`` and `Requests `_ 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 `_ like this::

./describe_github_user.py --organization heroku --member

If you have a useful completer to add to the `completer library
`_, 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 bash
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 ````, 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(current_input, keyword_to_check_against):
# Pass through ALL options even if they don't all start with 'current_input'
return True

argcomplete.autocomplete(parser, validator=my_validator)

Global completion
-----------------
In global completion mode, you don't have to register each argcomplete-capable executable separately. Instead, bash
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