Call a cyclopts CLI from another Python script

It is possible to call your cyclopts app from other Python scripts. This can be useful for calling a specific set of arguments in a repeatable way. As an example, we'll create a Python script that prompts a user for their name, then calls the say_hello() command of the cyclopts app we built above.

In the root of the project folder, i.e. where your pyproject.toml or requirements.txt are, above the src/ path, create a file say_hi.py. This script will import the my_pymodule.cli module, prompt the user for a name, then call the say_hello() command of the CLI app, all within the Python script file.

from my_pymodule import cli

if __name__ == "__main__":
    name: str = input("What is your name? ")
    command: list[str] = ["hello", name]

    cli.app.meta(tokens=command)

Now when you run python say_hi.py, the script will create a list of commands to pass as tokens to the meta app. If you want to enable debugging, you can just add --debug to the commands list:

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command: list[str] = [..., "--debug"]

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