CommandTool 0.5.3
Tools for creating command line interfaces involving sub-commands.
License: MIT

CommandTool
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Summary
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Tools for creating command line interfaces involving sub-commands.

Get Started
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* Download and install from source

Author
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James Gardner


Changes
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0.5.3
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2011-07-11
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* Support for ``cmd.out`` and ``cmd.err`` functions on the ``cmd`` object

0.5.2
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2011-04-24
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* Added support for extra information in command-specific help, not shown 
  on the command index page
* Added a ``bag`` argument and default alias look up on ``self`` so that  
  commands behave a bit like Marbles
* Added ``instance``, ``raw_args`` and ``raw_opts`` to the ``cmd`` object
  passed to ``run()`` and deprecated the use of ``on_initial_convert()``
* Moved the ``bag`` argument out of ``run()`` and instead it gets passed
  as a service by PipeStack if needed. Can be accessed as ``cmd.service``
  in your ``run()`` function.
* Changed the command structure to be that of a list of tuples, rather than a
  dictionary; nesting now happens by placing a list of tuples as a value

0.5.1
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2011-04-04
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* Added ``requires.txt``
* Added a new ``run()`` method allowing you to use a ``cmd`` object for
  chaining sub commands

0.5.0
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* Basic support for nested commands, further refactoring of the new use cases
  may be forthcoming

0.4.1
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2010-09-16
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* Added support for aliases to commands

2010-09-05
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* Changed terminology from sub-command to command (internally variables
  are still called ``sub_command`` though)
* Added a ``help_option``
* Fixed bad default help desciptions

0.4.0
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2010-03-02
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* Complete restructure, now uses a ``Cmd`` class
* Removed man page and reStructuredText support

0.3.2
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2009-12-24
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* BuildKit compatibility: restructured docs, added doctests.

0.3.1
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2009-11-08
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* Added direct support for a flows setup

2009-10-25
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* Made docutils optional

0.3.0
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2009-07-30
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* Updated the documentation to be accurate
* Moved the create_man example into the core as commandtool.help
* Removed old comments
* Updated the find example

0.2.1
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2009-06-30
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* Updated the find and create_man programs
* Created the documentation
* Removed metavar handlers

0.2.0
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2009-04-28
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* Added a create_man.py script which extracts docstrings in written in a subset
  of full reStructuredText into both HTML, man and help text formats.

0.1.0
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* First version


License
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Copyright (C) 2009 James Gardner - http://jimmyg.org/

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