arbutus 0.0.4
Simplification of CLI construction in Python based on argparse: just add branches and arguments. CLI construction from yaml file also available.
Requires Python: >=3.8

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## Contents
* [Getting Started](#getting-started)
  * [Requirements](#requirements)
  * [Installation](#installation)
* [Usage](#usage)
* [Roadmap](#roadmap)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [License](#license)
* [Contact](#contact)

## Getting Started

### Requirements

* Python 3.8 or above
  * argparse
  * logging

### Installation 

```commandline
pip install arbutus
```

## Usage

Once installed, the cli can be defined using a yaml file, using the keywords branches to define new branch names and 
arguments to define new arguments and it's characteristics. For example:
```yaml
main:
  branches:
    sum:
      arguments:
        integers:
          type: float
          nargs: +
          help: list of integers to sum
          action:
            name: sum_
            source: sample
    store:
      arguments:
        something:
          type: str
          nargs: +
          help: string or strings to store
          action: store
```

The yaml above would imply that a `module` named sample includes the action `sum_`, and makes use of the `store` action. 
These actions can be defined using the `@Arbutus.new_action` wrapper. For example:

```python
from arbutus import Arbutus

@Arbutus.new_action
def sum_(*args, **kwargs):
    total = 0
    for number in kwargs['values']:
        total += number
    print(total)
```

Finally, the CLI itself can be constructed by calling the `from_yaml` method:

```python
import arbutus

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cli = arbutus.Arbutus()
    cli.from_yaml('sample/cli.yaml')
    cli.parse_args()
```

The CLI can then be called like:

```bash
# This would display general help about the CLI functionality
python3 sample/sample.py -h
# This would display general help about the sum test functionality
python3 sample/sample.py sum -h
# This would throw the result of running the sum function with the passed arguments
python3 sample/sample.py sum 12 25 3
```


## Roadmap

See the [open issues](https://github.com/aubravo/arbutus/issues) for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

## Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are **greatly appreciated**.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement".
Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

## License

Distributed under the MIT License. See `LICENSE` for more information.

## Contact

Alvaro U. Bravo - [alvaroubravo@gmail.com](mailto:alvaroubravo@gmail.com)

Project Links:
* [arbutus - GitHub](https://github.com/aubravo/arbutus)
* [arbutus - PyPi](https://pypi.org/project/arbutus/)

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