Script shortcuts

Hi,

Script shortcuts are great and very helpful in project. But they are too simple and stupid for now. There are some features which will be great to implement to my mind:

1. Multi-line commands. For now there are no simple way to specify multiple commands, e.g.:

[scripts]
cmd = [
    "echo 1",
    "echo 2"
]

Of course as workaround I can use bash -c "echo 1 && echo 2", but if I want to write something complex with two more command it will be like a mess.

1. Positional arguments in commands. Would be great to implement something like implemented in tox (http://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config.html#substitutions-for-positional-arguments-in-commands). It’s very useful for example in case of tests:

[scripts]
test = py.test {posargs:tests/unit/}

And pyenv run test to run all tests or pyenv run test -- tests/unit/test_utils.py to run subset of tests.

This is just a proposal and I’m interesting in what you think about that.

Thanks!

[techalchemy]

@stevenhair that unfortunately isn’t how it works. We are happy to maintain it the way it is. We are not interested in building an entire new application to support endless use cases around it. The current tooling provides a helper suite to supplement pipenv run, but it’s a little odd to tell us we need to either build more features into it or remove it entirely, isn’t it?

[uranusjr]

Maybe we can introduce optional Invoke integration like this

# Pipfile

[scripts]
command = "echo This is a regular command"
task = { task = "mytask" }
test = { task = "mytask", defaultargs = "tests/unit" }

# tasks.py

import invoke

@invoke.task()
def mytask(ctx):
    print('This is an invoke task callable from Pipfile')

@invoke.task()
def test(ctx, mod):
    # mod receives
    #     "tests/unit" if run with "pipenv run test"
    #     <arg> if run with "pipenv run test <arg>"
    ctx.run(f'pytest {mod}')

Pipenv will not bundle Invoke, but simply converts the { task = "..." } construct into a invoke ... call, and show and error message if Invoke is not installed (either globally or in the virtualenv).

Thoughts @techalchemy?