Py-shtab

Jul 20, 2023

Automagic shell tab completion for Python CLI applications

What Automatically generate shell tab completion scripts for Python CLI apps Why Speed & correctness. Alternatives like argcomplete and pyzshcomplete are slow and have side-effects How shtab processes an argparse.ArgumentParser object to generate a tab completion script for your shell

Features

  • Outputs tab completion scripts for
    • bash
    • zsh
    • tcsh
  • Supports
    • argparse
    • docopt via argopt
  • Supports arguments, options and subparsers
  • Supports choices e.g. –say=hello,goodbye
  • Supports file and directory path completion
  • Supports custom path completion e.g. –file=*.txt


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