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On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 05:20:34 -0700 (PDT), vijnaana@gmail.com declaimed the
following:

>Hi,
>
>I need to develop a python CLI framework.
>
>For example if i need to set an ip address in linux:
>
>ifconfig eth0 172.16.25.125
>
>I should be able to use python to do the above.
>
>1. The user will execute a python script to which i will pass the params eth0 and ip address (something like ifconf.py  eth0 172.16.25.125)
>
>2. Within the script i grab the params and do something to the effect of user executing 'ifconfig eth0 172.16.25.125' from the shell.
>
	Which will most likely turn into something like (quick&dirty version)

	os.system("ifconfig %s %s" % (userDevice, userIP))

>3. There are other such commands for which i will be using python scripts. I came across pyCLI, but it doesn't have much documentation, so couldn't figure out how to move forward.
>

	Unless you intend to implement those commands internally, all you are
creating is a command line parser that spawns out to a hidden shell to
actually execute the native command executable...
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