`polychron.entrypoint` Module

The entrypoint module contains the intended main method for initiating PolyChron and methods for command line argument processing.

parse_cli

parse_cli(argv: Sequence[str] | None = None) -> argparse.Namespace

Parse and return command line arguments

If an error is encountered, this will call sys.exit.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
`argv`		optional list of command line parameters to parse. If None, sys.argv is used by `argparse.ArgumentParser.parse_args`	`None`

Returns: (argparse.Namespace): Namespace object with arguments set as attributes, as returned by argparse.ArgumentParser.parse_args()

print_version() -> None

Print the version of PolyChron to stdout

Note

For editable installs the printed value may be incorrect

main() -> None

Main method as the entry point for launching the GUI