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2 Alternatives to cmd and cmd2
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5 For programs that do not interact with the user in a continuous loop -
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6 programs that simply accept a set of arguments from the command line, return
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7 results, and do not keep the user within the program's environment - all
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8 you need are sys_\ .argv (the command-line arguments) and optparse_
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9 (for parsing UNIX-style options and flags).
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11 .. _optparse: http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html#module-optparse
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13 .. _sys: http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#module-sys
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15 .. _curses: http://docs.python.org/library/curses.html#module-curses
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17 .. _cmd: http://docs.python.org/library/cmd.html#module-cmd
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19 The curses_ module produces applications that interact via a plaintext
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20 terminal window, but are not limited to simple text input and output;
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21 they can paint the screen with options that are selected from using the
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22 cursor keys. However, programming a curses_-based application is not as
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23 straightforward as using cmd_.
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25 Several packages in PyPI enable interactive command-line applications
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26 approximately similar in concept to cmd_ applications. None of them
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27 share cmd2's close ties to cmd, but they may be worth investigating
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28 nonetheless.
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30 * CmdLoop_
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31 * cly_
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32 * CmDO_ (As of Feb. 2010, webpage is missing.)
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33 * pycopia-CLI_
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35 cmdln_, another package in PyPI, is an extension to cmd_ and, though it
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36 doesn't retain full cmd_ compatibility, shares its basic structure with
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37 cmd_.
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39 .. _cmdln_ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cmdln
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41 .. _CmdLoop: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/CmdLoop
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43 .. _cly: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cly
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45 .. _CmDO: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/CmDO/0.7
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47 .. _pycopia-CLI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycopia-CLI/1.0
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49 I've found several alternatives to cmd in the Cheese Shop - CmdLoop, cly, CMdO, and pycopia. cly looks wonderful, but I haven't been able to get it working under Windows, and that's a show-stopper for many potential sqlpython users. In any case, none of the alternatives are based on cmd - they're written from scratch, which means that a cmd-based app would need complete rewriting to use them. I like sticking close to the Standard Library whenever possible. cmd2 lets you do that.
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