NOTE: 2.1.x is the development version of Cement. Please use 2.0.x in production.

Cement is an advanced CLI Application Framework for Python. Its goal is to introduce a standard, and feature-full platform for both simple and complex command line applications as well as support rapid development needs without sacrificing quality.

Cement core features include (but are not limited to):

• Core pieces of the framework are customizable via handlers/interfaces
• Extension handler interface to easily extend framework functionality
• Config handler supports parsing multiple config files into one config
• Argument handler parses command line arguments and merges with config
• Log handler supports console and file logging
• Plugin handler provides an interface to easily extend your application
• Hook support adds a bit of magic to apps and also ties into framework
• Handler system connects implementation classes with Interfaces
• Output handler interface renders return dictionaries to console
• Cache handler interface adds caching support for improved performance
• Controller handler supports sub-commands, and nested controllers
• Zero external dependencies* (ext's with dependencies ship separately)
• 100% test coverage using Nose
• 100% PEP8 compliant using pep8 and autopep8 tools
• Extensive Sphinx documentation
• Tested on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, and 3.2

Note that argparse is required as an external dependency for Python < 2.7 and < 3.2.

• DOCS: http://builtoncement.com/2.1/
• CODE: http://github.com/cement/
• PYPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cement/
• SITE: http://builtoncement.com/
• T-CI: https://travis-ci.org/cement/cement
• HELP: cement@librelist.org - #cement

The Cement CLI Application Framework is Open Source and is distributed under the BSD License (three clause). Please see the LICENSE file included with this software.