Rattail Commands

Rattail ships with a command line / options framework. More on that can be found here and here.

The following commands are part of the core rattail package.

rattail shell

This command will launch a Python shell with the rattail package pre-imported and optionally pre-initialized:

lance@alfalfa:~/src/rattail2$ rattail -v shell
rattail.conf: INFO: Reading config file(s): ['/etc/rattail.conf']
rattail.conf: INFO: Reading config file(s): ['/etc/rattail/rattail.conf']
rattail.conf: INFO: Reading config file(s): ['/usr/local/etc/rattail.conf']
rattail.conf: INFO: Reading config file(s): ['/usr/local/etc/rattail/rattail.conf']
rattail.conf: INFO: Reading config file(s): ['/home/lance/.rattail.conf']
rattail.conf: INFO: Reading config file(s): ['/home/lance/.rattail/rattail.conf']
Launching Python shell...
conf file(s): ['/home/lance/.rattail.conf']
>>> config.get('shrubbery', 'max_branches')
'420'
>>>

rattail uuid

This command will generate an UUID and print it to the console.

If you specify the --gui option, instead of printing an UUID it will display a small wxPython application: