devel/py-shtab 1.7.1 DragonFly

What: Automatically generate shell tab completion scripts for Python CLI apps Why: Speed & correctness. Alternatives like argcomplete and pyzshcomplete are slow and have side-effects How: shtab processes an argparse.ArgumentParser object to generate a tab completion script for your shell

Features:

• Outputs tab completion scripts for
  • bash
  • zsh
  • tcsh
• Supports
  • argparse
  • docopt (via argopt)
• Supports arguments, options and subparsers
• Supports choices (e.g. --say={hello,goodbye})
• Supports file and directory path completion
• Supports custom path completion (e.g. --file={*.txt})