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Create an interactive shell with Python.

ishell helps you to easily create an interactive shell for your application. It supports command completion, dynamic arguments, a command history, and chaining of commands.

Cisco like console

Installation

You can install ishell using pip:

pip install ishell

Basics

Console

When building your first application you can start with one console. You can specify the prompt and prompt delimiter:

from ishell.console import Console
console = Console(prompt="someone@someplace ", prompt_delim="#")
console.loop()

Then you have:

Console

Command

The next step is to create a new command and attach it to the console:

from ishell.console import Console
from ishell.command import Command
console = Console(prompt="someone@someplace ", prompt_delim="#")

class UsersCommand(Command):
    def run(self, line):
        print "Showing all users..."

users_command = UsersCommand("users", help="Show all users")

console.addChild(users_command)
console.loop()

With the users_command attached to the console you can just hit ENTER and a help message will be printed, if you press TAB the users command will be entered and you can hit ENTER again to execute the command:

Users Command

Command Arguments

You can complete commands with dynamic arguments:

from ishell.console import Console
from ishell.command import Command
console = Console(prompt="someone@someplace ", prompt_delim="#")

class UsersCommand(Command):
    def args(self):
        return ['online', 'offline']

    def run(self, line):
        last_arg = line.split()[-1]
        print "Showing all users %s..." % last_arg

users_command = UsersCommand("users", help="Show all users", dynamic_args=True)

console.addChild(users_command)
console.loop()

Users arguments

Connecting Commands

You can connect commands with each other to build a more verbose command line: (Press TAB to complete)

from ishell.console import Console
from ishell.command import Command
console = Console(prompt="someone@someplace ", prompt_delim="#")

class UsersCommand(Command):
    def args(self):
        return ['online', 'offline']

    def run(self, line):
        last_arg = line.split()[-1]
        print "Showing all users %s..." % last_arg

users_command = UsersCommand("users", help="Show all users", dynamic_args=True)

show = Command("show", help="Show command helper")
console.addChild(show).addChild(users_command)
console.loop()

Example: show users [online|offline]

Show Users

  • Check examples directory for cisco like terminal and a linux minimal shell.