Command Line Interface

weppy provides a built-in integration of the click command line interface, to implement and allow customization of command line scripts.

Basic Usage

weppy automatically installs a command weppy inside your virtualenv. The way this helper works is by providing access to all the commands on your weppy application's instance, as well as some built-in commands that are included out of the box. weppy extensions can also register more commands there if they desire to do so.

For the weppy command to work, an application needs to be discovered. To tell weppy which application it should inspect, use the --app / -a parameter. It should be the import path for your application or the path to a Python file. In the latter case, weppy will attempt to setup the Python path for you automatically and discover the module name, but there is a chance this may fail.

Given that, to run a development server for your application, you can just write in your command line:

> weppy --app=myapp run

or, in the case of a single-file app:

> weppy --app=myapp.py run

Running a Shell

To run an interactive Python shell, you can use the shell command:

> weppy --app=myapp shell

This will start up an interactive Python shell, setup the correct application context and setup the local variables in the shell. By default, you have access to your app object, and all the variables you defined in your application module.

Custom Commands

If you want to add more commands to the shell script, you can do this easily. In fact, if you want a shell command to setup your application, you can write:

from weppy import App

app = App(__name__)

@app.command('setup')
def setup():
    # awesome code to initialize your app

The command will then be available on the command line:

> weppy --app=myapp setup