Refactored to replace custom StubbornDict with collections.OrderedDict

The self.settable object is now an OrderedDict instead of a custom StubbornDict.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5125eaba..862622f3 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -103,16 +103,22 @@ Example cmd2 application (**examples/example.py**):
 ```python
 '''A sample application for cmd2.'''
 
-from cmd2 import Cmd, make_option, options
+from cmd2 import Cmd, make_option, options, set_use_arg_list
 
 class CmdLineApp(Cmd):
-    multilineCommands = ['orate']
-    Cmd.shortcuts.update({'&': 'speak'})
-    maxrepeats = 3
-    Cmd.settable.append('maxrepeats')
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.multilineCommands = ['orate']
+        self.maxrepeats = 3
 
-    # Setting this true makes it run a shell command if a cmd2/cmd command doesn't exist
-    # default_to_shell = True
+        # Add stuff to settable and shortcutgs before calling base class initializer
+        self.settable['maxrepeats'] = 'max repetitions for speak command'
+        self.shortcuts.update({'&': 'speak'})
+
+        # Set use_ipython to True to enable the "ipy" command which embeds and interactive IPython shell
+        Cmd.__init__(self, use_ipython=False)
+
+        # For option commands, pass a single argument string instead of a list of argument strings to the do_* methods
+        set_use_arg_list(False)
 
     @options([make_option('-p', '--piglatin', action="store_true", help="atinLay"),
               make_option('-s', '--shout', action="store_true", help="N00B EMULATION MODE"),