Welcome to clitool’s documentation!¶

clitool is a handy library to support you implementing command line script. This library cuts off redundant argument parsing and configuration loading, and also provides a feature to handle streaming data with some logging.

You can try a simple solution to parse Apache accesslog and create key/value report. This will be suitable for Hadoop Streaming environment.

List of features are:

• One line argument parsing function and decorator
• Simple configuration loader
• Stream utility with some logging
• CSV reader/writer unicode support for Python 2.x (in official document)
• Apache accesslog parser

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