py311-shtab

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})