Additional Arguments

You will likely need to pass additional variables to your commands in order for them to run properly. An example would be a config object with all of your config options. This is accomplished by passing additional arguments to the HelCLI object when instantiated.

In practice it looks like this:

from helcli import HelCLI


var_one = "test1"
var_two = "test2"
cli = HelCLI(sub_commands='command_dir',
             description='A simple CLI',
             var_one, var_two)
cli.run()

Then when it comes time to use this variable in the main function of all our commands these are available as an additional variable.

def main(parser_d, additional_args):
    # unpack additional_args
    var_one, var_two = additional_args
    print(var_one)  # prints "test1"
    print(var_two)  # prints "test2"

Note

If you pass additional arguments to the HelCLI object you will need to have the additional_args variable passed in the main() function in all of your commands, or else you will get errors.