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-rwxr-xr-xREADME.md6
-rw-r--r--docs/integrating.rst5
-rw-r--r--docs/unfreefeatures.rst4
-rwxr-xr-xexamples/persistent_history.py4
-rwxr-xr-xexamples/python_scripting.py8
-rw-r--r--tests/test_completion.py2
-rw-r--r--tests/test_transcript.py6
7 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3698a7fe..c0fd8b7e 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Main Features
- Special-character command shortcuts (beyond cmd's `?` and `!`)
- Command aliasing similar to bash `alias` command
- Macros, which are similar to aliases, but they can contain argument placeholders
-- Ability to load commands at startup from an initialization script
+- Ability to run commands at startup from an initialization script
- Settable environment parameters
- Parsing commands with arguments using `argparse`, including support for sub-commands
- Unicode character support
@@ -109,12 +109,12 @@ Instructions for implementing each feature follow.
- Simple scripting using ASCII text files with one command + arguments per line
- See the [Script files](https://cmd2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/freefeatures.html#script-files) section of the `cmd2` docs for more info
- See [script.txt](https://github.com/python-cmd2/cmd2/blob/master/examples/scripts/script.txt) for a trivial example script that can be
- used in any `cmd2` application with the `load` command (or `@` shortcut)
+ used in any `cmd2` application with the `run_script` command (or `@` shortcut)
- Powerful and flexible built-in Python scripting of your application using the `run_pyscript` command
- Run arbitrary Python scripts within your `cmd2` application with the ability to also call custom `cmd2` commands
- No separate API for your end users to learn
- - Syntax for calling `cmd2` commands in a `pyscript` is essentially identical to what they would enter on the command line
+ - Syntax for calling `cmd2` commands in a `run_pyscript` is essentially identical to what they would enter on the command line
- See the [Python](https://cmd2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/freefeatures.html#python) section of the `cmd2` docs for more info
- Also see the [python_scripting.py](https://github.com/python-cmd2/cmd2/blob/master/examples/python_scripting.py)
example in conjunction with the [conditional.py](https://github.com/python-cmd2/cmd2/blob/master/examples/scripts/conditional.py) script
diff --git a/docs/integrating.rst b/docs/integrating.rst
index aeb8ceca..352bb2f0 100644
--- a/docs/integrating.rst
+++ b/docs/integrating.rst
@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ loop::
Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
- alias help load orate pyscript say shell speak
- edit history mumble py quit set shortcuts unalias
+ alias history mumble pyscript run_script shell
+ edit load orate quit say shortcuts
+ help macro py run_pyscript set speak
(Cmd)
diff --git a/docs/unfreefeatures.rst b/docs/unfreefeatures.rst
index 81be76d8..ada3a2f6 100644
--- a/docs/unfreefeatures.rst
+++ b/docs/unfreefeatures.rst
@@ -359,10 +359,10 @@ the help categories with per-command Help Messages::
edit Edit a file in a text editor
help List available commands with "help" or detailed help with "help cmd"
history usage: history [-h] [-r | -e | -s | -o FILE | -t TRANSCRIPT] [arg]
- load Runs commands in script file that is encoded as either ASCII or UTF-8 text
py Invoke python command, shell, or script
- pyscript Runs a python script file inside the console
quit Exits this application
+ run_pyscript Runs a python script file inside the console
+ run_script Runs commands in script file that is encoded as either ASCII or UTF-8 text
set usage: set [-h] [-a] [-l] [settable [settable ...]]
shell Execute a command as if at the OS prompt
shortcuts Lists shortcuts available
diff --git a/examples/persistent_history.py b/examples/persistent_history.py
index e88fd5d9..bc62cb14 100755
--- a/examples/persistent_history.py
+++ b/examples/persistent_history.py
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ import cmd2
class Cmd2PersistentHistory(cmd2.Cmd):
"""Basic example of how to enable persistent readline history within your cmd2 app."""
def __init__(self, hist_file):
- """Configure the app to load persistent readline history from a file.
+ """Configure the app to load persistent history from a file (both readline and cmd2 history command affected).
- :param hist_file: file to load readline history from at start and write it to at end
+ :param hist_file: file to load history from at start and write it to at end
"""
super().__init__(persistent_history_file=hist_file, persistent_history_length=500, allow_cli_args=False)
self.prompt = 'ph> '
diff --git a/examples/python_scripting.py b/examples/python_scripting.py
index 88bc2f98..5b241192 100755
--- a/examples/python_scripting.py
+++ b/examples/python_scripting.py
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
# coding=utf-8
"""A sample application for how Python scripting can provide conditional control flow of a cmd2 application.
-cmd2's built-in scripting capability which can be invoked via the "@" shortcut or "load" command and uses basic ASCII
-text scripts is very easy to use. Moreover, the trivial syntax of the script files where there is one command per line
-and the line is exactly what the user would type inside the application makes it so non-technical end users can quickly
-learn to create scripts.
+cmd2's built-in scripting capability which can be invoked via the "@" shortcut or "run_script" command and uses basic
+ASCII text scripts is very easy to use. Moreover, the trivial syntax of the script files where there is one command per
+line and the line is exactly what the user would type inside the application makes it so non-technical end users can
+quickly learn to create scripts.
However, there comes a time when technical end users want more capability and power. In particular it is common that
users will want to create a script with conditional control flow - where the next command run will depend on the results
diff --git a/tests/test_completion.py b/tests/test_completion.py
index b70de7bc..91519b0a 100644
--- a/tests/test_completion.py
+++ b/tests/test_completion.py
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ def test_basic_completion_nomatch(cmd2_app):
def test_delimiter_completion(cmd2_app):
text = '/home/'
- line = 'load {}'.format(text)
+ line = 'run_script {}'.format(text)
endidx = len(line)
begidx = endidx - len(text)
diff --git a/tests/test_transcript.py b/tests/test_transcript.py
index 5dd39e1b..909a6a5c 100644
--- a/tests/test_transcript.py
+++ b/tests/test_transcript.py
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ this is a \/multiline\/ command
assert transcript == expected
-def test_load_record_transcript(base_app, request):
+def test_run_script_record_transcript(base_app, request):
test_dir = os.path.dirname(request.module.__file__)
filename = os.path.join(test_dir, 'scripts', 'help.txt')
@@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ def test_load_record_transcript(base_app, request):
fd, transcript_fname = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix='', suffix='.trn')
os.close(fd)
- # Run the load command with the -r option to generate a transcript
- run_cmd(base_app, 'load {} -t {}'.format(filename, transcript_fname))
+ # Execute the run_script command with the -t option to generate a transcript
+ run_cmd(base_app, 'run_script {} -t {}'.format(filename, transcript_fname))
assert base_app._script_dir == []
assert base_app._current_script_dir is None