Welcome to Click

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click is a Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way with as little amount of code as necessary. It’s the “Command Line Interface Creation Kit”. It’s highly configurable but comes with good defaults out of the box.

It aims at making writing command line tools fun and quick without causing user frustration at not being able to implement an intended CLI API.

Click in three points:

  • arbitrary nesting of commands

  • automatic help page generation

  • supports lazy loading of subcommands at runtime

What does it look like? A simple example can be this:

import click

@click.command()
@click.option('--count', default=1, help='Number of greetings.')
@click.option('--name', prompt='Your name',
              help='The person to greet.')
def hello(count, name):
    """Simple program that greets NAME for a total of COUNT times."""
    for x in range(count):
        click.echo('Hello %s!' % name)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    hello()

And what it looks like:

$ hello --count=3
Your name: John
Hello John!
Hello John!
Hello John!

And it gives you nicely formatted help pages:

$ hello --help
Usage: hello [OPTIONS]

  Simple program that greets NAME for a total of COUNT times.

Options:
  --count INTEGER  Number of greetings.
  --name TEXT      The person to greet.
  --help           Show this message and exit.

You can get the library directly from PyPI:

pip install click

Documentation

This part of the documentation guides you through all the usage patterns of the library.

API Reference

If you are looking for information on a specific function, class or method, this part of the documentation is for you.