The cli Module

cli.py

Command Line Interface for the census python package

class CensusContext(doc=None)[source]

Context object supporting the CLI functionality of this package

Creates a new object

Parameters

  • subclass – A concrete class containing configuration information Configuration options must be defined as class memebers with names, starting with one ‘_’ characters and values be instances of :class Argument:

  • description – Optional text to use as description. If not specified, then it is extracted from subclass documentation

validate(attr, value)[source]

Subclasses can override this method to implement custom handling of command line arguments

Parameters

  • attr – Command line argument name

  • value – Value returned by argparse

Returns

value to use

census_cli()[source]