Adding Commandline Arguments

If you would like to add additional command-line options, access helper’s argparse based parser adding additional command line arguments as needed. The arguments will be accessible via the Controller.args attribute.

Example:

from helper import parser

p = parser.get()
p.add_argument('-n', '--newrelic',
               action='store',
               dest='newrelic',
               help='Path to newrelic.init for enabling NewRelic '
                    'instrumentation')
p.add_argument('-p', '--path',
               action='store_true',
               dest='path',
               help='Path to prepend to the Python system path')

You can also override the auto-assigned application name:

from helper import parser

parser.name('my-app')

And the default description:

from helper import parser

parser.description('My application rocks!')