Automatically create python wrappers for bash script using docopts

Hi,

I have a set of bash script that are now using docopts. I would like to be able to automatically create python function able to call these bash script.

The idea is the following one. I have a script test.sh with

Usage:
  test.sh (-testdir <testDirPath>) [-v=<VERSION>]
  test.sh -h | --help
Options:
  -h --help         Show this screen.
  -testdir <path>   Dew test directory path.
  -v <version>      Version for XX TOOL [default: Prod].

From which I can extract the Usage part with grep/sed. Now I want to use docopt to automatically write a python script containing:

def test(testdir, v='Prod'):
    subprocess.Popen(['test.sh.sh -testdir %s -v %s' %(testDir, v], shell = True).

It seems to be possible to get the arguments from docopt:

arguments = docopt(__doc__, version='Naval Fate 2.0')
    print(arguments)

but how can I override docopt so it does not try parsing the current python script being executed as what I want is only the arguments dictionnary to buid the function test().

from docopt import docopt


with open ("test.doc", "r") as myfile:
    data=myfile.read()
print(data)    
arguments = docopt(data)

Any idea? Is this thing have been done before?

[TylerTemp]

If I understand it correctly: you want to access the internal data that been parsed and matched by docopt.

In short: nuh, docopt does not expose such api. May considering copy/paste and modify code from docopt.

My lib allows to access parsed data tree (and the matched status, errors, etc), but, I wont suggested it, as it’s really nested and complex without document/guid of this part

[laurentvm]

Nope, because in your example, the args are provided and hard coded. What I want is being able to get the dictionnary with typed arguments; default values and so on in order to write (generate) a python wrapper file that defines python function with the correct set of arguments that I can use in python only.

I can write all the wrapping function myself, by hand but it will request eacht time a manual modifiction if my bash function changes.