Description:

Cement is an advanced CLI Application Framework for Python. It promotes code
re-use by way of a plugin system that enables plugins to be shared between any
application built on Cement. The MVC and overall framework design is very
much inspired by the TurboGears2 web framework. Its goal is to introduce a
standard, and feature-full platform for both simple and complex command line
applications as well as support rapid development needs without sacrificing
quality.

At a minimum, Cement configures the following features for every application:

* Multiple Configuration file parsing (default: /etc, ~/)
* Command line argument and option parsing
* Dual Console/File Logging Support
* Internal and External (3rd Party) Plugin support
* Basic "hook" support
* Model/View/Controller support for advanced application design
* Text output rendering with Genshi templates
* Json output rendering allows other programs to access your CLI-API