The smartness of `pypi-command-line`¶

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Autocompletion¶

It supports command line argument autocompletion that can be used via pressing tab. Example of autocomplete

Smart aliases¶

You can write the first character(s) of the command and it will automatically get the command that starts with that character(s). Whenever it does this you'll get a message notifying you about that in case that was unexpected.

It always tries not to show a command not found message unless the input doesn't match with any command (50% match is required). It asks the user which command they tried to use if it finds multiple matching commands

Example of the smart aliases

If there are multiple commands that start with the specified character(s) then it shows a selection and asks the user to select a command.

Example of smart aliases selection

Caching packages and requests¶

The package implements caching logic for faster load times

Colored output everywhere¶

It shows colored output wherever it can. help command, errors, command outputs

Smart and Inituitive error handling¶

Example of smart and inituitive error handling

Emojis¶

It shows emojis for responses that makes it more ✨beautiful✨

Command specific¶

`wheels`¶

In the wheels command it colorizes the seperate parts of the wheels for easy understanding

Example of this feature

Format¶

The wheel filename is {distribution}-{version}(-{build tag})?-{python tag}-{abi tag}-{platform tag}.whl.

distribution

Distribution name, e.g. 'django', 'pyramid'.

version

Distribution version, e.g. 1.0.

build tag (Optional)

build number. Must start with a digit. Acts as a tie-breaker if two wheel file names are the same in all other respects (i.e. name, version, and other tags). Sort as an empty tuple if unspecified, else sort as a two-item tuple with the first item being the initial digits as an int, and the second item being the remainder of the tag as a str.

language implementation and version tag

E.g. 'py27', 'py2', 'py3'.

abi tag

E.g. 'p33m', 'abi3', 'none'.

platform tag

E.g. 'linux_x86_64', 'any'.

file extension

E.g. '.whl'.

For example, distribution-1.0.0-1-py27-none-any.whl is the first build of a package called 'distribution' with version 1.0.0, and is compatible with Python 2.7 (any Python 2.7 implementation), with no ABI (pure Python), on any CPU architecture.

The last three components of the filename before the extension are called "compatibility tags." The compatibility tags express the package's basic interpreter requirements and are detailed in PEP 425.

- Data gotten from https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/#file-name-convention

The smartness of pypi-command-line¶