Django docopt command

Django-docopt-command allows you to write Django manage.py commands using the docopt library. This means that you can define commands using usage strings.

References:

• Django: The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
• The docopt library: Command-line interface description language
• Writing custom django-admin commands

class Command(DocOptCommand):
	# This usage string defines the command options:
	docs = "Usage: command <option1> <option2> [--flag1]"

	def handle_docopt(self, arguments):
		# arguments contains a dictionary with the options
		pass

Django-docopt-command is tested with Django 2.2 - 3.1 and Python 3.5 - 3.8 and is hosted on github.

Note that version 1.0.0 also supports Django 2.1 and version 0.5.0 supports Django 1.11 and Django 2.0.

Example

See the testproject/docopt_example in the django-docopt-command github repository.

Usage

Install django-docopt-command.

pip install django-docopt-command

Step 1 - management command

Write a Django custom management command, as described in Writing custom django-admin commands.

Step 2 - inherit from DocOptCommand

class Command(DocOptCommand):
	pass

Step 3 - add a docs string

class Command(DocOptCommand):
	docs = "Usage: command <option1> <option2> [--flag1]"

Step 4 - override handle_docopt

class Command(DocOptCommand):
	docs = "Usage: command <option1> <option2> [--flag1]"

	def handle_docopt(self, arguments):
		option1 = arguments['option1']
		option2 = arguments['option2']

License

Django-docopt-command is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.