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Automagic shell tab completion for Python CLI applications

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$conda install conda-forge::shtab

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What: Automatically generate shell tab completion scripts for Python CLI apps
Why: Speed & correctness. Alternatives like argcomplete & pyzshcomplete are slow and have side-effects
How: shtab processes an argparse.ArgumentParser object to generate a tab completion script for your shell

Summary

Automagic shell tab completion for Python CLI applications

Last Updated

Oct 21, 2026 at 11:52

License

MPL-2.0

Supported Platforms

noarch

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