Create an interactive shell with Python.
ishell helps you to easily create an interactive shell for your application. It supports command completion, dynamic arguments, a command history, and chaining of commands.
You can install ishell using pip:
pip install ishell
When building your first application you can start with one console. You can specify the prompt and prompt delimiter:
from ishell.console import Console
console = Console(prompt="someone@someplace ", prompt_delim="#")
console.loop()Then you have:
The next step is to create a new command and attach it to the console:
from ishell.console import Console
from ishell.command import Command
console = Console(prompt="someone@someplace ", prompt_delim="#")
class UsersCommand(Command):
def run(self, line):
print "Showing all users..."
users_command = UsersCommand("users", help="Show all users")
console.addChild(users_command)
console.loop()With the users_command attached to the console you can just hit ENTER and a help message will be printed, if you press TAB the users command will be entered and you can hit ENTER again to execute the command:
You can complete commands with dynamic arguments:
from ishell.console import Console
from ishell.command import Command
console = Console(prompt="someone@someplace ", prompt_delim="#")
class UsersCommand(Command):
def args(self):
return ['online', 'offline']
def run(self, line):
last_arg = line.split()[-1]
print "Showing all users %s..." % last_arg
users_command = UsersCommand("users", help="Show all users", dynamic_args=True)
console.addChild(users_command)
console.loop()
You can connect commands with each other to build a more verbose command line: (Press TAB to complete)
from ishell.console import Console
from ishell.command import Command
console = Console(prompt="someone@someplace ", prompt_delim="#")
class UsersCommand(Command):
def args(self):
return ['online', 'offline']
def run(self, line):
last_arg = line.split()[-1]
print "Showing all users %s..." % last_arg
users_command = UsersCommand("users", help="Show all users", dynamic_args=True)
show = Command("show", help="Show command helper")
console.addChild(show).addChild(users_command)
console.loop()Example: show users [online|offline]
- Check examples directory for cisco like terminal and a linux minimal shell.