I’m a platform engineer building a python CLI app (using click) that teams in the same company could use to launch data processing jobs on our internally managed cluster. I want to build a functionality to collect usage data i.e., record the commands submitted to the app and store them in a database. So…
Tag: command-line-interface
How to override output filepath and write it along with output files at a desired directory through argparse
I have the following example code and I use argparse to call and execute it. Below is the main.py script where I call the above code via argparse Since I’m working on a python pipeline, I would like to override the output filepath and give it via CLI, i.e., as an arseparse argument. As I’ve said i…
‘can’t find ‘__ main __’ module’ in command prompt
So I was following the tutorial on some basic set-up (cloning the folder onto my own pc) of a project If you have chosen to install python (and already set up PATH variable for python.exe) then follow the instructions: Open the command prompt and change the directory to the project folder as mentioned above b…
How can I setup a python CLI application so that I can use it without directly referring to the interpreter?
I want to build an application, say it’s called helloworld, with a command line interface in python. My application as multiple nested modules and a top level module main.py. Say the layout is : At this point, once my project is installed I can run it using #> python path/to/helloworld/main.py arg1 a…
Different results when running C program from Python Subprocess vs in Bash
I’ve got a string/argument that I’d like to pass to a C program. It’s a string format exploit. However, there seems to be different behaviours exhibited if I call the C program from Python by doing versus The difference is that the string exploit attack works as expected when calling the scr…
How to edit parameters of modelica model with OMPython or Python CLI interface
I want to edit modelica model parameters in Python CLI interface, But don’t know how to find the correct method to make it. Modelica model code : Python code : In a folder i have around 10 text files, I want to run the modelica model for all the text files. How to do that with Python interface. Thanks A…
Best way to automate terminal line commands? Mac / get_iPlayer [closed]
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 1 year ago. Improve this question I’m looking for some advice as to how to automate commands via Termin…
Use Python click command to invoke a class method with variadic arguments
I have a class that gets initialized with a previously unknown number of arguments and I want it to be done on CLI using Python’s click package. My issue is that I can’t manage to initialize it and run a click command: Setting a defined number of arguments, like nargs=5, solves the issue of missin…
How to create a spinning command line cursor?
Is there a way to print a spinning cursor in a terminal using Python? Answer Something like this, assuming your terminal handles b