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Diffstat (limited to 'cmd2/cmd2.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | cmd2/cmd2.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/cmd2/cmd2.py b/cmd2/cmd2.py index 356600c7..2cebe3f7 100644 --- a/cmd2/cmd2.py +++ b/cmd2/cmd2.py @@ -1961,14 +1961,19 @@ class Cmd(cmd.Cmd): result = target return result - def onecmd(self, statement: Statement) -> Optional[bool]: + def onecmd(self, statement: Union[Statement, str]) -> Optional[bool]: """ This executes the actual do_* method for a command. If the command provided doesn't exist, then it executes _default() instead. - :param statement: Command - a parsed command from the input stream + :param statement: Command - intended to be a Statement instance parsed command from the input stream, + alternative acceptance of a str is present only for backward compatibility with cmd :return: a flag indicating whether the interpretation of commands should stop """ + # For backwards compatibility with cmd, allow a str to be passed in + if not isinstance(statement, Statement): + statement = self._complete_statement(statement) + funcname = self._func_named(statement.command) if not funcname: self.default(statement) |