The cli Module

fst2csv.py

Command Line Interface for the census python package

class CensusContext(doc=None)

Context object supporting the CLI functionality of this package

Creates a new object

Parameters:

• subclass – A concrete class containing configuration information Configuration options must be defined as class memebers with names, starting with one ‘_’ characters and values be instances of :class Argument:

• description – Optional text to use as description. If not specified, then it is extracted from subclass documentation

validate(attr, value)

Subclasses can override this method to implement custom handling of command line arguments

Parameters:

• attr – Command line argument name

• value – Value returned by argparse

Returns:

value to use

census_cli()