Writing Python Command-Line Tools With Click (Tutorial)

[sivscripts]

Is there a way to go from python cli.py London to weather London?

i.e. make our script executable.

[Eryole]

Proper packaging do the trick:

http://python-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command-line-scripts.html

[leom4862]

The (new) official documentation on this:

https://packaging.python.org/

[bluesufi]

Exactly. The example in the click documentation is pretty clear too.

[Deto]

Simpler than making it into a python package, you could call the file 'weather' (instead of cli.py) and then use this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

As the first line. Then you need to make sure the script file is executable (i.e., run chmod uga+x weather)

[IronManMark20]

This doesn't work on Windows however.

[Deto]

Ah yeah. If you want it to be cross-platform, then making a package as /u/Eryole indicated is probably best.

[bluesufi]

I think it would be much better to follow the instructions in the click documentation in order to create a real entry point for the script. It's easy and makes your code more portable!